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Mild contraction : evaluating loss of information due to loss of belief /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Levi, Isaac, 1930-
Corporate Author:	Oxford University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Language Notes:	English.
Published:	Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon ; Oxford University Press, 2004.
Series:	Oxford scholarship online.
Subjects:	Belief and doubt. Knowledge, Theory of. Decision making. Decision Making Croyance et doute. Théorie de la connaissance. Prise de décision. epistemology. decision making. PHILOSOPHY > Epistemology. Belief and doubt Knowledge, Theory of Twijfel. Meningen. Electronic books.
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