Citation: Hartmann, Stephan and Bovens, L (2001) Belief Expansion, Contextual Fit and the Reliability of Information Sources.
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We develop a probabilistic criterion for belief expansion that is sensitive to the degree of contextual fit of the new information to our belief set as well as to the reliability of our information source. We contrast our approach with the success postulate in AGM-style belief revision and show how the idealizations in our approach can be relaxed by invoking Bayesian-Network models.Article
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| Additional Information: | Citation: In: V. Akman et al. (eds.), "Modeling and Using Context" (2001), 421-424. |
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| Creators: | Hartmann, Stephan and Bovens, L and |
| Subjects: | Philosophy |
| Keywords: | Bayesianism, Confirmation theory |
| Divisions: | Institute of Philosophy |
| Collections: | London Philosophy Papers |
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| Comments and Suggestions: | Description/Provenance: Submitted by Mark McBride (mark.mcbride@sas.ac.uk) on 2008-03-02T17:26:54Z
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Previous issue date: 2001. Date accessioned: 2008-03-02T17:26:54Z; Date available: 2008-03-02T17:26:54Z; Date issued: 2001. |