richard swinburne is a one of those contemporary philosophers who refers to inductive reasoning to provide explanation for theism. utilizing the principle of credulity and simplicity, and by distinguishing the temporal orders from spatial orders, he attempts to strengthen the probability of the god existence. swinburne tries to answer to the limit-question by the hypothesis of theistic theology...

In this paper we show how recently observed facts and plausible explanations for them can be accommodated or not in the mental state of an agent. This depends on whether the epistemic surprise degree associated with them is below or above a surprise limit that the agent is willing to accept. This limit is related to the credulity or skepticism degree the agent exhibits. The proposed approach al...

http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c6979.full?sid=0c9ee36b-72ab-409a-b94b4e7ba1a7c408 Cite this as: BMJ 2010; 341:c6979 Integrative medicine and the point of credulity 1. John C McLachlan, professor of medical education + Author Affiliations 1. School of Medicine and Health, Durham University, Stockton-on-Tees TS17 6BH, UK 1. [email protected] So called integrative medicine should not ...

In this paper we present an extended logic programming framework that allows the modeling of dialogues between agents with different levels of sincerity and credulity. An agent is modeled by a set of extended logic programming rules, and the agent,s mental state is defined by the well-founded model of the extended logic program. Using this modeling process, an agent is able to participate in di...