کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
4661798 1633469 2013 52 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Reducing belief simpliciter to degrees of belief
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
کاهش simpliciter باور به درجات باور
کلمات کلیدی
احتمال ذهنی؛ منطق Doxastic؛ بازنگری اعتقاد؛ معرفت شناسی رسمی
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه ریاضیات منطق ریاضی
چکیده انگلیسی

Is it possible to give an explicit definition of belief (simpliciter) in terms of subjective probability, such that believed propositions are guaranteed to have a sufficiently high probability, and yet it is neither the case that belief is stripped of any of its usual logical properties, nor is it the case that believed propositions are bound to have probability 1? We prove the answer is ‘yes’, and that given some plausible logical postulates on belief that involve a contextual “cautiousness” threshold, there is but one way of determining the extension of the concept of belief that does the job. The qualitative concept of belief is not to be eliminated from scientific or philosophical discourse, rather, by reducing qualitative belief to assignments of resiliently high degrees of belief and a “cautiousness” threshold, qualitative and quantitative belief turn out to be governed by one unified theory that offers the prospects of a huge range of applications. Within that theory, logic and probability theory are not opposed to each other but go hand in hand.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Annals of Pure and Applied Logic - Volume 164, Issue 12, December 2013, Pages 1338–1389
نویسندگان
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