Transmission Failure, AGM Style
Erkenntnis 78 (2):383-398 (2013)
Abstract
This article provides a discussion of the principle of transmission
of evidential support across entailment from the perspective
of belief revision theory in the AGM tradition. After outlining
and briefly defending a small number of basic principles of belief
change, which include a number of belief contraction analogues of
the Darwiche-Pearl postulates for iterated revision, a proposal is then
made concerning the connection between evidential beliefs and belief
change policies in rational agents. This proposal is found to be
suffcient to establish the truth of a much-discussed intuition regarding
transmission failure.
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