...that P is relevant for Q: Indicative conditionals and learning from testimony

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Authors
Publication date 2020
Book title 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2020)
Book subtitle Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines : online, 29 July-1 August 2020
ISBN
  • 9781713818977
Event 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
Volume | Issue number 2
Pages (from-to) 987-993
Publisher Cognitive Science Society
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract
Our beliefs change with learning, and much of what we learn comes from the testimony of other people. How much our be- liefs change may depend on how many people are the sources of a given piece of information, and how reliable their expertise makes them. It is not clear, however, what exactly the effects of reliability or number of speakers will be when the testimony has the form of an indicative conditional. Here, we test the hy- pothesis that learning a conditional amounts to increasing the degree to which the antecedent of that conditional is relevant for its consequent. Furthermore, we investigate whether this is affected by number of speakers and by their expertise.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://cogsci.mindmodeling.org/2020/papers/0174/index.html
Other links https://www.proceedings.com/56299.html
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