By Peter Gärdenfors

Wisdom in Flux offers a thought of rational adjustments of trust, focusing quite on revisions that happen whilst the agent gets new details that's inconsistent with the current epistemic kingdom. It brings jointly, systematizes, and enlarges upon an already influential physique of labor by way of the writer and his colleagues at the dynamics of theories and epistemic states. the matter of information illustration is likely one of the most vital present learn difficulties in philosophy, synthetic intelligence, and cognitive technology in most cases. whereas many of the examine has been dedicated to studying the constitution of epistemic states, this booklet is exclusive in describing the dynamics of information and trust, and in offering types of data that target expansions, revisions, and contractions of epistemic states.

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AD NOSTRA^C DOCTRINAM J"VNT 5CRIPTA, 4. Lower cover, inner side top to bottom. Circles used by Renaissance Lullists. (From The Ars Magna of Ramon 23 Lull vided also, making four small triangles or twelve angles in all. The We three additional angles exist "potentially" in triangle A. do not see them with our eyes, but we can see them with our imagination. In this way our geometrical intellect, aided by imagination, arrives at new truths. The top right square is designed to prove that there is only one universe rather than a plurality of worlds.

Other types of graphs capable of extension to n terms have been proposed. Alexander Macfarlane, a professor of physics at the University of Texas, abandoned the square graph for a long narrow strip subdivided as shown in Figure 34. " Null classes are indicated by gray shading. Compartments excluded by the premises are shaded black. this a "logical AAAAAAAA p MD D MD P *vD p MD P M3 ABCD Figure 34. D ^D D MD p Logic Diagrams 45 Indeterminate classes are indicated by shading half the compartment black.

Y. The smaller square in the used merely for recording the con- to clusion. Carroll's diagram, like that of Venn and the various extensions of Venn's method, easily takes care of syllogisms with mixtures of positive and negative forms of the same term. In traditional logic such statements would have to be rephrased to arrive at a valid Logic Diagrams 47 syllogistic form.

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