Bounded Revision: Two-dimensional Belief Change between Conservatism and Moderation
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In this paper I present the model of ‘bounded revision’ that is based on two-dimensional revision functions taking as arguments pairs consisting of an input sentence and a reference sentence. The key idea is similar to the model of ‘revision by comparison’ investigated by Fermé and Rott (Artificial Intelligence 157, 2004). In contrast to the latter, however, bounded revision satisfies the AGM axioms as well as the Darwiche-Pearl axioms. Two onedimensional special cases are obtained by setting one argument of the two-dimensional revision operation to certain extremal values. Bounded revision thus fills the space between conservative revision (also known as natural revision) and moderate revision (also known as lexicographic revision). I argue that two-dimensional revision operations add decisively to the expressive power of qualitative approaches that refrain from assuming numbers as measures of degrees of belief.
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