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Contradictory Information as a Basis for Rational Belief

verfasst von : Adam Přenosil

Erschienen in: Logic, Rationality, and Interaction

Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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Abstract

As agents faced with fallible information, we frequently find ourselves in situations where we are forced to base our beliefs on evidence which is in some way or another contradictory. We nevertheless want these beliefs to be rational. This paper presents a simple probabilistic model of what it means for a belief based on a contradictory body of evidence to be rational. In this approach, we model contradictions in the evidence available to us as resulting from random noise, and we model our task as rational agents as reconstructing the most likely states of affairs given the evidence available to us. Our main result consists in providing several equivalent descriptions of the non-reflexive and non-monotonic consequence relation which formalizes the notion that it is reasonable to accept that a proposition is true given good evidence supporting some set of propositions.

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Fußnoten
1
At least if we disregard issues relating to logical non-omniscience and dialetheism. Our logic is intended to model reasoning with ordinary empirical propositions where such issues are not prominent.
 
2
We have no particular story to tell about how one comes into possession of good evidence, or what precisely constitutes good evidence. It is entirely up to the user of the logic to supply such a story. We simply imagine that the user of the logic collects some information about the world and at the end of this process he ends up with a certain probability with information supporting or contradicting p (given that p is true, or given that p is false).
 
3
The following proposition was suggested to the author by one of the referees.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Contradictory Information as a Basis for Rational Belief
verfasst von
Adam Přenosil
Copyright-Jahr
2017
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55665-8_11