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A Qualitative Approach to Uncertainty

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Logic and Its Applications (ICLA 2011)

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We focus on modelling dual epistemic attitudes (belief-disbelief, knowledge-ignorance, like-dislike) of an agent. This provides an interesting way to express different levels of uncertainties explicitly in the logical language. After introducing a dual modal framework, we discuss the different possibilities of an agent’s attitude towards a proposition that can be expressed in this framework, and provide a preliminary look at the dynamics of the situation.

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  1. Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen, The Netherlands

    Sujata Ghosh

  2. Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Fernando R. Velázquez-Quesada

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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Indian Institute of Technology, 208016, Kanpur, India

    Mohua Banerjee

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, 208016, Kanpur, India

    Anil Seth

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Ghosh, S., Velázquez-Quesada, F.R. (2011). A Qualitative Approach to Uncertainty. In: Banerjee, M., Seth, A. (eds) Logic and Its Applications. ICLA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6521. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18026-2_9

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