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Accepted Beliefs, Revision and Bipolarity in the Possibilistic Framework

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    Didier Dubois

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Dubois, D., Prade, H. (2009). Accepted Beliefs, Revision and Bipolarity in the Possibilistic Framework. In: Huber, F., Schmidt-Petri, C. (eds) Degrees of Belief. Synthese Library, vol 342. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9198-8_7

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