Belief contraction in the context of the general theory of rational choice

DOI10.2307/2275152zbMath0796.03036OpenAlexW2135106702MaRDI QIDQ4283076

Hans Rott

Publication date: 26 September 1994

Published in: Journal of Symbolic Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/25382/1/ubr12695_ocr.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

preferencechoicebelief revisionselection functionspartial meet contractionAGM theoryplain base contractionprioritized base contraction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other nonclassical logic (03B60) Knowledge representation (68T30)

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