Probabilistic dynamic belief revision

Authors
Publication date 2008
Journal Synthese
Volume | Issue number 165 | 2
Pages (from-to) 179-202
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract
We investigate the discrete (finite) case of the Popper-Renyi theory of conditional probability, introducing discrete conditional probabilistic models for knowledge and conditional belief, and comparing them with the more standard plausibility models. We also consider a related notion, that of safe belief, which is a weak (non-negatively introspective) type of "knowledge". We develop a probabilistic version of this concept ("degree of safety") and we analyze its role in games. We completely axiomatize the logic of conditional belief, knowledge and safe belief over conditional probabilistic models. We develop a theory of probabilistic dynamic belief revision, introducing probabilistic "action models" and proposing a notion of probabilistic update product, that comes together with appropriate reduction laws.
Document type Article
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-008-9369-8
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