| 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.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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epistemology.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
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Belief and doubt.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Twijfel.
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Meningen.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oxford University Press
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| ISBN |
0199270708 |
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9780199270705 |
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9780191533723 |
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0191533726 |
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9780191601774 |
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0191601772 |
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