On Belief

Belief functions on lattices

✍ Michel Grabisch 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 162 KB

We extend the notion of belief function to the case where the underlying structure is no more the Boolean lattice of subsets of some universal set, but any lattice, which we will endow with a minimal set of properties according to our needs. We show that all classical constructions and definitions (

On conditional belief functions

✍ Chunhai Yu; Fahard Arasta 📂 Article 📅 1994 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 577 KB

Swinburne on credal belief

✍ Stephen Maitzen 📂 Article 📅 1991 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 807 KB

Richard Swinburne devotes much of his book Faith and Reason 1 to determining the standard of propositional belief required for belief in a religious creed. 2 As the book demonstrates, a key issue in the analysis of religious faith is the degree to which adherents of a creed must believe that creed t

On rational belief equilibria

✍ Mordecai Kurz 📂 Article 📅 1994 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 946 KB

On explaining beliefs

✍ Noretta Koertge 📂 Article 📅 1985 🏛 Springer 🌐 English ⚖ 578 KB

St. Thomas on religious belief

✍ W. K. Presa 📂 Article 📅 1980 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English ⚖ 271 KB