An Essay on Contraction - Rilegato

Fuhrmann, André

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1575860554 ISBN 13: 9781575860558

Casa editrice: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications, 1997

Riassunto

The book generalises earlier theories of belief change to cover all kinds of changes of sets by sets. The principal focus is still on changes of belief sets in response to new evidence, but the formal theory extends to all domains with a closure operation and a preference structure including, for example, systems of action. Contraction is the key notion; all other changes can be defined. Various new applications of the theory are outlined. A sentential version of contraction, subtraction, is proposed as a formal counterpart to 'except'-locutions in natural language. Connections are emphasised with other areas at the interface between philosophical logic and artificial intelligence such as reasoning from default assumptions or from inconsistent premises. A relation of merge inference is proposed as a means of retrieving maximal but nontrivial information from inconsistent premises. Merge inference respects certain anti-Boolean intuitions while avoiding a revision of classical logic.

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The book generalises earlier theories of belief change to cover all kinds of changes of sets by sets. The principal focus is still on changes of belief sets in response to new evidence. But the formal theory extends to all domains with a closure operation and a preference structure including, for example, systems of action. Contraction is the key notion; all other changes can be defined. Various new applications of the theory are outlined.

Contenuti

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Theories and theory change; 3. General contraction; 4. Revision, merge and inference; 5. Everything in flux: dynamic ontologies; Bibliography.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: The Center for the Study of Language and Information Publications
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1575860554
• ISBN 13: 9781575860558
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 129
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile