Abstract Discussions of the issue iterated belief revision are commonly accompanied by presentation three “concrete” operators: natural, restrained and lexicographic. This raises a natural question: What is so distinctive about these particular methods? Indeed, common axiomatic ground for work on revision, AGM Darwiche-Pearl postulates, leaves open whole range alternative proposals. In this pap...

Abstract Data visualizations are often represented in public discourse as objective proof of facts. However, a visualization is only single translation reality, just like any other media, representation devices, or modes representation. If we wish to encourage thoughtful, informed, and literate consumption data visualizations, it crucial that consider why they presented interpreted objective. W...

We motivate and describe a theory of belief in this paper. This theory is developed with the following view of human belief in mind. Consider the belief that an event E will occur (or has occurred or is occurring). An agent either entertains this belief or does not entertain this belief (i.e., there is no "grade" in entertaining the belief). If the agent chooses to exercise "the will to believe...

There is a duality in our everyday view of belief. On the one hand, we sometimes speak of credence as a matter of degree. We talk of having some level of confidence in a claim (that a certain course of action is safe, for example, or that a desired event will occur) and explain our actions by reference to these degrees of confidence – tacitly appealing, it seems, to a probabilistic calculus suc...

hepatitis b (hb) is an infectious disease occurring worldwide which can be transferred by some professions, including hairdressers. health education is an essential component of public health campaign about this disease. the purpose of this study was to test the utility of the health belief model (hbm) in understanding and predicating the intention of hairdressers in prevention of hb in their c...