A fuzzy modal logic for belief functions

  • Authors:
  • Lluís Godo;Petr Hájek;Francesc Esteva

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut d'Investigació en Intel.ligencia Artificial, Spanish Research Council, CSIC, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalunya, Spain;Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, AV CR, 182 07 Prague, Czech Republic;Institut d'Investigació en Intel.ligencia Artificial, Spanish Research Council, CSIC, 08193 Bellaterra, Catalunya, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce a new logical approach to reason explicitly about Dempster-Shafer belief functions. We adopt the following view: one just starts with Boolean formulas ϕ and a belief function on them; the belief of ϕ is taken to be the truth degree of the (fuzzy) proposition Bϕ standing for "ϕ is believed". For our complete axiomatization (Hylbert-style) we use one of the possible definitions of belief, namely as probability of (modal) necessity. This enables us to define a logical system combining the modal logic S5 with an already proposed fuzzy logic approach to reason about probabilities. In particular, our fuzzy logic is the logic LII½ which puts Lukasiewicz and Product fuzzy logics together.