This work treats the case of expert-originated hypotheses which are to be modified or refined by training event data. The method accepts the hypotheses in the form of weighted VL, expressions and uses the probabilistic rule generator, PRG. The theory of operation, verified by experimental results, provides for any degree of hypothesis modification, ranging from minor perturbation to complete re...

The epistemology of disagreement concerns the normative question of how you ought to revise your beliefs in a very specific epistemic context. Imagine that you and a peer form an opinion in isolation about whether P in response to mutually shared evidence, and you take your peer to be just as reliable as you about matters of this kind. How are you to respond should you subsequently discover tha...