In many scenarios where the integration of information into a knowledge base (KB) leads to inconsistencies there is a need to change the KB minimally. In belief revision, relevance postulates meet the minimality requirement by restricting the elimination of KB elements to those that are relevant for the incoming information. This paper focuses on two minimality postulates in an ontology revisio...

Abstract We analyze axioms and postulates as speech acts. After a brief historical appraisal of the concept axiom in Euclid, Frege, Hilbert, we evaluate contemporary axiomatics from linguistic perspective. Our reading is inspired by Hilbert meant to account for assertive, directive, declarative components modern axiomatics. will do this describing constitutive regulative roles that possess with...

Recent years have seen a lot of work towards extending the established AGM belief revision theory with respect to iterating revision, preserving conditional beliefs, and handling sets of propositions as new information. In particular, novel postulates like independence and evidence retainment have been brought forth as new standards for revising epistemic states by (sets of) propositional infor...

This interdisciplinary research aims to distinguish universal scale-free and field-like fundamental principles of selforganization observable across many disciplines like computer science, neuroscience, microbiology, social science, etc. Based on these universal principles we provide basic premises and postulates for designing holistic social simulation models. We also introduce pervasive infor...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) provides a superb opportunity to introduce relativity concepts to undergraduate students, including non-physics majors. Familiarity with the numerous applications of GPS motivates students to understand relativity. A few fundamental principles need to be introduced, including the postulates of special relativity and the universality of free fall. Then a serie...

The aim of the article is to present role lay judges in judicial system, taking into account advantages and disadvantages this institution as well specific principles resulting from principle a democratic state law. also assesses introduction judge Supreme Court presents de lege ferenda postulates regarding improvement functioning form social factor participation court proceedings. It was consi...

A rational agent changes her beliefs in response to new information; a widely held idea is that such belief changes should be minimal. This paper is an overview of the theory of minimal belief revision. I employ a decisiontheoretic framework to compare various principles for minimal belief revision. The main topics covered include the AGM postulates for belief revision, belief contraction, Grov...

The model of the physical system with discrete interactions is considered. The model is based on the postulates that: (i) parameters of the physical system are defined in process of its interaction; (ii) the process of interaction is discrete. The model gives an essential way to introduce all basic notions and obtain the results of the quantum theory, in particular the operator formalism of the...