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Author Levi, Isaac, 1930-

Title Mild contraction : evaluating loss of information due to loss of belief / Isaac Levi
Published Oxford : Clarendon ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 245 pages) : illustrations
Contents 1. Supposition and Belief Change; 2. Cognitive Decisions; 3. Deliberate Expansion; 4. Informational Value in Contraction; 5. Contraction, Rational Choice and Economy; 6. Some Problems with Infinity; 7. Base Contraction and the Filtering Condition; References; Index
Summary Levi offers a new solution, based on evaluation of the information lost, to the problem of belief contraction, or how rationally to relinquish old beliefs. He compares his approach with his earlier account of inductive expansion
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-239) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Belief and doubt.
Knowledge, Theory of.
epistemology.
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
Belief and doubt.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Twijfel.
Meningen.
Form Electronic book
Author Oxford University Press
ISBN 0199270708
9780199270705
9780191533723
0191533726
9780191601774
0191601772