Interpreting enthymematic arguments using belief revision

Interpreting enthymematic arguments using belief revision

This paper is about the situation in which an author (writer or speaker) presents a deductively invalid argument, but the addressee aims at a charitable interpretation and has reason to assume that the author intends to present a valid argument. How can he go about interpreting the author’s reasoning as enthymematically valid? We suggest replacing the usual find-the-missingpremise approaches by...

Belief Revision using Table Transformation

A most crucial problem in knowledge representation is the revision of knowledge when new, possibly contradictory, information is obtained (belief revision). In this report, we address this problem when the knowledge base is a set of expressions in propositional logic. We introduce a new representation of propositional expressions using 2-dimensional matrices and provide the theoretical underpin...

Belief Revision

Philippa, a Greek nineteen year old student at Patras University, has just discovered that Nikos and Angela are not her true parents; she was adopted when she was six months old from an orphanage in Sao Paulo. The news really shook Philippa. Much of what she used to believe all her life about herself and her family was wrong. After recovering from the initial shock she started putting her thoug...

Belief Revision

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