The consistency argument for ranking functions

Studia Logica

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 299-329

  Huber, Franz ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditional Consistency; Conditionalization; Consistency; Consistency Argu ment; Consistency theorem; Deductive closure; Dutch Book argument; Probability measures; Ranking functions; Revision; Spohn; Update rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547540114     PISSN: 00393215     EISSN: 15728730     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11225-007-9062-9     Document Type: Article

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