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(2010) Epsa epistemology and methodology of science, Dordrecht, Springer.
Multiple contraction consists in giving up several beliefs at once. The treatments of multiple contraction in AGM belief revision theory have remained unsatisfactory. The paper proposes a clear, plausible, and general model for multiple contraction in ranking-theoretic terms according to which multiple contraction turns out to reduce to single contractions. The belief set multiply contracted by {A 1, …, A n } is just the intersection of all the belief sets singly contracted by A i (i = 1, …, n).
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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-3263-8_24
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Spohn, W. (2010)., Multiple contraction revisited, in M. Surez, M. Dorato & M. Rédei (eds.), Epsa epistemology and methodology of science, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 279-288.
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