Projective default epistemology

  • Authors:
  • Emil Weydert

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Luxembourg

  • Venue:
  • WCII'02 Proceedings of the 2002 international conference on Conditionals, Information, and Inference
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We show how to extract iterated revision strategies for complex evidence, e.g. epistemic conditionals, from reasonable default inference notions. This approach allows a more extensive cross-fertilization between default reasoning and belief revision. To illustrate it, we use powerful default formalisms exploiting canonical ranking constructions, like system JZ, for specifying new ranking-based revision mechanisms. They extend Spohn's ranking revision to sets of conditionals and satisfy basic rationality principles.