Belief-revision, the Ramsey test, monotonicity, and the so-called impossibility results

Review of Symbolic Logic 1 (4):402-423 (2008)
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Peter G¨ ardenfors proved a theorem purporting to show that it is impossible to adjoin to the AGM -postulates for belief-revision a principle of monotonicity for revisions. The principle of monotonicity in question is implied by the Ramsey test for conditionals. So G¨

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