Beliefs, Points of View, and Multiple Environments

نویسندگان

  • Yorick Wilks
  • Janusz S. Bien
چکیده

The paper describes o system for deoling with nestings of belief in terms of the mechanism of computational environment. A method is offered for computing the beliefs of A about B (ond so on) in terms of the systems existing knowledge structures about A and B separately. A proposol for belief percolotion is put forward: percolation being a side effect of the process of the computation of nested beliefs, but one which could explain the acquisition of unsupported beliefs. It is argued that the mechanism proposed is compatible with o general least effort hypothesis concerning human mental functioning.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Cognitive Science

دوره 7  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1983