Group belief dynamics under iterated revision Fixed points and cycles of joint upgrades

Authors
Publication date 2009
Book title 12th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge
Book subtitle TARK '09 : California, July 06-08, 2009
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781605585604
Event 12th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, TARK '09
Pages (from-to) 41-50
Number of pages 10
Publisher ACM
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract

What happens if in the Muddy Children story [22] we drop the assumption that the public announcements (made by the father and by the children) are commonly known to be always true, and instead we simply assume that they are true and commonly believed to be true? More generally, what happens in the long term with a group's beliefs, knowledge and "epistemic states" (fully describable in fact by conditional beliefs), when receiving (or exchanging) a sequence of public announcements of truthful but uncertain information? Do the agents' beliefs (or knowledge, or conditional beliefs, or other doxastic attitudes such as "strong beliefs") reach a fixed point? Or do they exhibit instead a cyclic behavior, oscillating forever?

Document type Conference contribution
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1145/1562814.1562824
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/70350651619
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