Making beliefs coherent: The subtraction and addition strategies

Journal of Logic, Language and Information

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 143-163

  Olsson, Erik J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Belief revision; Coherence; Consolidation; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 54649084033     PISSN: 09258531     EISSN: 15729583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008274704871     Document Type: Article

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