Mild Contraction: Evaluating Loss of Information Due to Loss of Belief

Mild Contraction: Evaluating Loss of Information Due to Loss of Belief

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-258

  Levi, Isaac ^a  

^a Department of Philosophy Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Belief; Belief change; Epistemology; Judgment; Mild contraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921946407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199270708.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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