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A Survey of non-Prioritized Belief Revision

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This paper summarizes and systematizes recent and ongoing work on non-prioritized belief change, i.e., belief revision in which the new information has no special priority due to its novelty.

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Hansson, S.O. A Survey of non-Prioritized Belief Revision. Erkenntnis 50, 413–427 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005534223776

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