Principles of Remembering and Forgetting

Howarth, E. and Paris, J.B. (2014) Principles of Remembering and Forgetting. Logique et Analyse, 228. pp. 489-511.

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Abstract

We propose two principles of inductive reasoning related to how observed information is handled by conditioning, and justify why they may be said to represent aspects of rational reasoning. A partial classification is given of the probability functions which satisfy these principles.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Inductive Logic, Logical Probability, Rationality, Uncertain Reasoning
Subjects: MSC 2010, the AMS's Mathematics Subject Classification > 03 Mathematical logic and foundations
MSC 2010, the AMS's Mathematics Subject Classification > 60 Probability theory and stochastic processes
Depositing User: Professor Jeff Paris
Date Deposited: 04 Aug 2015
Last Modified: 20 Oct 2017 14:13
URI: https://eprints.maths.manchester.ac.uk/id/eprint/2355

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