Keep Changing Your Beliefs, Aiming for the Truth.

We investigate the process of truth-seeking by iterated belief revision with higher-level doxastic information. We elaborate further on the main results in Baltag and Smets (Proceedings of TARK, , Proceedings of WOLLIC'09 LNAI 5514, ), applying them to the issue of convergence to truth. We study the...

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Publicado en:Erkenntnis Vol. 75; no. 2; pp. 255 - 271
Autores principales: Baltag, Alexandru, Smets, Sonja
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Springer Nature Sep2011
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