A Counterexample to Six Fundamental Principles of Belief Formation
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A Counterexample to Six Fundamental Principles of Belief Formation
In recent years there has been a growing consensus that ordinary reasoning does not conform to the laws of classical logic but is rather nonmonotonic in the sense that conclusions previously drawn may well be removed upon acquiring further information Even so rational belief formation has up to now been modelled as conforming to some important principles that are classically valid The counterex...
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عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2004
ISSN: 0039-7857
DOI: 10.1023/b:synt.0000024914.61925.5b