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A logic of trust-based beliefs

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: Traditionally, knowledge and beliefs are attributed to agents. The article explores an alternative approach where knowledge is informed by data and belief comes from trust in, not necessarily reliable, data. At the core of the article is the modality “if one dataset is trusted, then another dataset informs a belief”. The main technical result is a sound and complete logical system capturing the properties of this modality and its connection with functional dependency between datasets.

Source: Synthese

DOI: 10.1007/s11229-024-04671-3

Authors: Junli Jiang, Pavel Naumov

Institutions: Southwest University, University of Southampton

Language: English

Topic: Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Estimated APC paid: $2,990

Funders: China Scholarship Council, Southwest University, Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, Science and Technology Support Plan for Youth Innovation of Colleges and Universities of Shandong Province of China