The Belief in Non-Belief Ethical/Religious Exploration of Atheism

belief function and the transferable belief model

Beliefs are the result of uncertainty. Sometimes uncertainty is because of a random process and sometimes the result of lack of information. In the past, the only solution in situations of uncertainty has been the probability theory. But the past few decades, various theories of other variables and systems are put forward for the systems with no adequate and accurate information. One of these a...

Belief Revision in Non - Monotonic

Non-Additive Degrees of Belief

This paper starts from the position that belief is primarily quantitative and not categorical, i.e. we generally assume the existence of various degrees of belief. This corresponds to the observation that most human beings experience belief as a matter of degree. We follow the usual convention that such degrees of belief are values in the [0, 1]-interval, including the two extreme cases 0 for “...

Belief and Degrees of Belief

Non-pdontised ranked belief change

Traditional accounts of belief change have been crificised for placing undue emphasis on the new belief provided as input. A recent proposal to address Such issues is the framework of Ghose and Goebel for non-pdofitised belief change based on default theories [8]. A novel feature of this approach is the introduction of disbeliefs alongside beliefs which allows for a view of belief contraction a...