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Transmission Failure, AGM-style

Journal Contribution - Journal Article

This article provides a discussion of the principle of transmission of evidential support across entailment from the perspective of belief revision theory in the AGM tradition. After outlining and briefly defending a small number of basic principles of belief change, which include a number of belief contraction analogues of the Darwiche-Pearl postulates for iterated revision, a proposal is then made concerning the connection between evidential beliefs and belief change policies in rational agents. This proposal is found to be suffcient to establish the truth of a much-discussed intuition regarding transmission failure.
Journal: Erkenntnis: an International Journal of Analytic Philosophy
ISSN: 0165-0106
Issue: 2
Volume: 78
Pages: 383 - 398
Publication year:2013
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Authors from:Higher Education