Sentence examples for rational revision from inspiring English sources

To enable a rational revision of the standard to take place full scale data have been collected on the wind induced force acting on a representative range of 750 mm road signs, 1500 mm road signs and a pedestrian barrier.

To enable a rational revision of the standard to take place full scale data have been collected on the vehicle induced force acting on a representative range of 750 mm road signs, 1500 mm road signs and a pedestrian barrier.

In Lewis's argument, the result follows because of the differences between rational belief revision and rational desire (or motivation) revision within the decision-theoretic framework.

Hence, principles of rational belief revision must work on inconsistent sets of beliefs.

According to some constructivists, moral norms develop over time, as result of ongoing rational deliberation and revision.

Here Habermas sides with Pettit in seeing the central function of explicit norms as creating a commons that can serve as the basis for institutionalizing norms, a space in which the content of norms and concepts can be put up for rational reflection and revision (Pettit 1992, Habermas 1990).

Even if the believer does not use an AGM revision operator, any rational approach to belief revision should at least treat ψ as "evidence" that supports ψ.

While this theory has not been discussed in the literature, it is notable in being a case not of rational reconstruction, but of doctrinal revision (Tuggy 2011a).

Her verdict against Galileo was rational and just and the revision of this verdict can be justified only on the grounds of what is politically opportune".

The area of belief revision studies how a rational agent may incorporate new information about a domain into its belief corpus.

We show in this paper that the AGM postulates are too weak to ensure the rational preservation of conditional beliefs during belief revision, thus permitting improper responses to sequences of observations.