When is an Example a Counterexample?
Artificial Intelligence
2013-10-29 v1
Abstract
In this extended abstract, we carefully examine a purported counterexample to a postulate of iterated belief revision. We suggest that the example is better seen as a failure to apply the theory of belief revision in sufficient detail. The main contribution is conceptual aiming at the literature on the philosophical foundations of the AGM theory of belief revision [1]. Our discussion is centered around the observation that it is often unclear whether a specific example is a "genuine" counterexample to an abstract theory or a misapplication of that theory to a concrete case.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1310.6432,
title = {When is an Example a Counterexample?},
author = {Eric Pacuit and Arthur Paul Pedersen and Jan-Willem Romeijn},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1310.6432},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
10 pages, Contributed talk at TARK 2013 (arXiv:1310.6382) http://www.tark.org