Title
Two axiomatic characterizations for the system of spheres-based (and the Epistemic Entrenchment-based) multiple contractions
Abstract
In some recent works (Reis 2011, Fermé and Reis, J. Philos. Log. 41, 29---52, 2012, Fermé and Reis, Rev. Symb. Log. 6, 460---487, 2013) two new kinds of multiple contraction functions have been proposed, namely the system of spheres-based multiple contractions and the epistemic entrenchment-based multiple contractions, as generalizations (to the case of multiple contraction) of the well-known classes of systems of spheres-based and of epistemic entrenchment-based (singleton) contractions. Additionally, a representation theorem for the class of epistemic entrenchment-based multiple contraction has been proposed, and it has been shown that the two newly proposed constructions are equivalent, in the sense that a multiple contraction function is a system of spheres-based multiple contraction if and only if it is an epistemic entrenchment-based multiple contraction. In this paper we present two axiomatic characterizations for those multiple contraction functions which differ from the one mentioned above and, in particular, make use of some more intuitive postulates.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/s10472-015-9454-x
Ann. Math. Artif. Intell.
Keywords
Field
DocType
Belief change,Theory contraction,Multiple contraction,System of spheres,Epistemic entrenchment,Axiomatic characterization,03B42,68T27
Belief change,Generalization,Axiom,Representation theorem,If and only if,Epistemology,Singleton,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
78
3-4
1012-2443
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
9
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maurício Reis1385.57
Pavlos Peppas226531.74
Eduardo Fermé39616.89