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The Gärdenfors impossibility theorem in non-monotonic contexts

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Gärdenfors' impossibility theorem draws attention to certain formal difficulties in defining a conditional connective from a notion of theory revision, via the Ramsey test. We show that these difficulties are not avoided by taking the background inference operation to be non-monotonic.

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Makinson, D. The Gärdenfors impossibility theorem in non-monotonic contexts. Stud Logica 49, 1–6 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00401549

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