Belief and plausibility

Agents have beliefs, based on more finely-structured information than just sets of options for the real situation. A common structure is an ordering of worlds by relative plausibility, which supports beliefs and conditional beliefs, often in co-existence with epistemic accessibility. Hard information will change the domain of such an ordered model, or its epistemic accessibility relation, while forms of soft information will affect the plausibility ordering. This connects dynamic-epistemic logic with belief revision theory.


 

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