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Kernel contraction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Sven Ove Hansson
Sven Ove Hansson*
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Department of Philosophy, Uppsala University, Villavägen 5, S-752 36 Uppsala, Sweden, E-mail: filsoh@strix.udac.uu.se
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Abstract

Kernel contraction is a natural nonrelational generalization of safe contraction. All partial meet contractions are kernel contractions, but the converse relationship does not hold. Kernel contraction is axiomatically characterized. It is shown to be better suited than partial meet contraction for formal treatments of iterated belief change.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 59 , Issue 3 , September 1994 , pp. 845 - 859
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1994

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