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Gärdenfors, P. 1985. The dynamics of belief, conditional sentences, and explanations. In Allwood, Jens S. and Erland Hjelmquist, eds. Foregrounding background. Doxa. pp. 107–116.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

background information | belief | conditional utterance

Annotation

G. argues that one cannot give a full account of background knowledge by discussing only the static features of an agent's state of belief, since one also has to account for how an agent is prepared to change his beliefs in the light of new evidence.