This paper presents a very high-level introduction to Belief Revision and Truth Maintenance Systems, including explanations of basic terminology , a brief history, and a comment on the two literatures: the TMS literature, and the AGM Belief Revision literature. More extensive surveys in each of the two literatures are cited. The paper concludes with a proposal to continue the investigation of t...

This paper presents a very high-level introduction to Belief Revision and Truth Maintenance Systems, including explanations of basic terminology, a brief history, and a comment on the two literatures: the TMS literature, and the AGM Belief Revision literature. More extensive surveys in each of the two literatures are cited. The paper concludes with a proposal to continue the investigation of th...

In his interpretation of Aristotle, D.W. Hamlyn thinks that we ought to wrest apart the faculty responsible for perception of the common-objects from that responsible for sophisticated perceptual capacities like joint perception and perceptual discrimination. In this paper, I argue that such a reading is inconsistent with Aristotle’s remarks in De Memoria 1 that unite perception of time, magnit...

Peer-prediction [18] is a (meta-)mechanism which, given any proper scoring rule, produces a mechanism to elicit privately-held, non-verifiable information from self-interested agents. Formally, truth-telling is a strict Nash equilibrium of the mechanism. Unfortunately, there may be other equilibria as well (including uninformative equilibria where all players simply report the same fixed signal...

0002-9610/$ see front matter 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjsurg.20 To my colleagues in the Midwest Surgical Association, distinguished guests, ladies, and gentlemen: thank you for the honor and privilege of serving as your president for the last year. I must also pay homage to 3 giants in the field of surgical oncology, upon whose shoulders I stand today to make my remarks: Edward F. Scan...