Knowledge from Probability
Logic in Computer Science
2021-06-23 v1 Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
We give a probabilistic analysis of inductive knowledge and belief and explore its predictions concerning knowledge about the future, about laws of nature, and about the values of inexactly measured quantities. The analysis combines a theory of knowledge and belief formulated in terms of relations of comparative normality with a probabilistic reduction of those relations. It predicts that only highly probable propositions are believed, and that many widely held principles of belief-revision fail.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2106.11501,
title = {Knowledge from Probability},
author = {Jeremy Goodman and Bernhard Salow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.11501},
year = {2021}
}
Comments
In Proceedings TARK 2021, arXiv:2106.10886