KR2021Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and ReasoningProceedings of the 18th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning

Online event. November 3-12, 2021.

Edited by

ISSN: 2334-1033
ISBN: 978-1-956792-99-7

Sponsored by
Published by

Copyright © 2021 International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization

Belief Contraction in Non-classical logics as Hyperintensional Belief Change

  1. Marlo Souza(Federal University of Bahia, University of São Paulo)
  2. Renata Wassermann(University of São Paulo)

Keywords

  1. Belief revision and update, belief merging, information fusion
  2. Reasoning about knowledge, beliefs, and other mental attitudes

Abstract

AGM's belief revision is one of the main paradigms in the study of belief change operations. Despite its popularity and importance to the area, it is well recognised that AGM's work relies on a strong idealisation of the agent's capabilities and the nature of beliefs themselves. Particularly, it is recognised in the literature that Belief and Knowledge are hyperintensional attitudes, i.e. they can differentiate between contents that are necessarily equivalent, but to our knowledge, only a few works have explicitly considered how hyperintensionality affects belief change. This work investigates abstract operations of hyperintensional belief change and their connection to belief change in non-classical logics, such as belief contraction operations for Horn Logics and Description Logics. Our work points to hyperintensional belief change as a general framework to unify results in belief change for non-classical logics.