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Coherentist Contraction

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A model of coherentist belief contraction is constructed. The outcome of belief contraction is required to be one of the coherent subsets of the original belief set, and a set of plausible properties is proposed for this set of coherent subsets. The contraction operators obtained in this way are shown to coincide with well-known belief base operations. This connection between coherentist and “foundationalist” approaches to belief change has important implications for the philosophical interpretation of models of belief change.

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  1. Department of Philosophy, University of Minnesota, 355 Ford Hall, Minneapolis, ML, 55454, USA

    Sven Ove Hansson

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Hansson, S.O. Coherentist Contraction. Journal of Philosophical Logic 29, 315–330 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1004743819412

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