{"id":"https://openalex.org/W39230753","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511526664.005","title":"On the logic of theory change: More maps between different kinds of contraction functions","display_name":"On the logic of theory change: More maps between different kinds of contraction functions","publication_year":1992,"publication_date":"1992-05-21","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W39230753","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511526664.005","mag":"39230753"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1017/cbo9780511526664.005","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511526664.005","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511526664.005","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306462995","display_name":"Cambridge University Press eBooks","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311721","host_organization_name":"Cambridge University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311721","https://openalex.org/P4310311702"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Cambridge University Press","University of Cambridge"],"type":"ebook platform"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Belief Revision","raw_type":"book-chapter"},"volume":{"id":"https://openalex.org/W400112057","display_name":"Belief Revision"},"type":"book-chapter","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"green","oa_url":"https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/25358/1/ubr12678_ocr.pdf","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5090605595","display_name":"Hans Rott","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8142-2736","observed_orcids":["https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8142-2736"]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Hans Rott","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5090605595"],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":6.7964,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":32,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.96332518,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":88,"max":96},"biblio":{"volume":null,"issue":null,"first_page":"122","last_page":"141"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11010","display_name":"Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge","score":0.9980000257492065,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11010","display_name":"Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge","score":0.9980000257492065,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11727","display_name":"Advanced Algebra and Logic","score":0.00039999998989515007,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1703","display_name":"Computational Theory and Mathematics"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T13558","display_name":"Philosophy, Science, and History","score":9.999999747378752e-05,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1207","display_name":"History and Philosophy of Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/theory-revision","display_name":"theory revision","score":0.6710000038146973},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/epistemic-entrenchment","display_name":"epistemic entrenchment","score":0.9440000057220459},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/belief-revision","display_name":"belief revision","score":0.5299999713897705}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777530160","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41796","display_name":"Sentence","level":2,"score":0.7979536652565002},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C163415756","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q126473","display_name":"Contraction (grammar)","level":2,"score":0.7208709120750427},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.4532108008861542},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C144237770","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q747534","display_name":"Mathematical economics","level":1,"score":0.42755192518234253},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.4211274981498718},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C111472728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9471","display_name":"Epistemology","level":1,"score":0.32777273654937744},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777686260","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q144037","display_name":"Calculus (dental)","level":2,"score":0.3239688277244568},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41895202","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8162","display_name":"Linguistics","level":1,"score":0.28962239623069763},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.2757346034049988},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.17312195897102356},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C71924100","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11190","display_name":"Medicine","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199343813","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12128","display_name":"Dentistry","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1017/cbo9780511526664.005","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511526664.005","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511526664.005","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306462995","display_name":"Cambridge University Press eBooks","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310311721","host_organization_name":"Cambridge University Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310311721","https://openalex.org/P4310311702"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Cambridge University Press","University of Cambridge"],"type":"ebook platform"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Belief Revision","raw_type":"book-chapter"},{"id":"pmh:oai:epub.uni-regensburg.de:25358","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/25358/1/ubr12678_ocr.pdf","pdf_url":"https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/25358/1/ubr12678_ocr.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401229","display_name":"University of Regensburg Publication Server (University of Regensburg)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I60668342","host_organization_name":"University of Regensburg","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I60668342"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"pmh:oai:epub.uni-regensburg.de:25358","doi":null,"is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/25358/1/ubr12678_ocr.pdf","pdf_url":"https://epub.uni-regensburg.de/25358/1/ubr12678_ocr.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306401229","display_name":"University of Regensburg Publication Server (University of Regensburg)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":[],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I60668342","host_organization_name":"University of Regensburg","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I60668342"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"","raw_type":"info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart"},"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320325850","display_name":"Universit\u00e4t Stuttgart","ror":"https://ror.org/04vnq7t77"}],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":true,"pdf":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W39230753.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W39230753.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":12,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W96379633","https://openalex.org/W1481348708","https://openalex.org/W1524219112","https://openalex.org/W1572414904","https://openalex.org/W1600613180","https://openalex.org/W2001755427","https://openalex.org/W2036991004","https://openalex.org/W2055344243","https://openalex.org/W2060533443","https://openalex.org/W2085022454","https://openalex.org/W2149420462","https://openalex.org/W2989739191"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2060533443","https://openalex.org/W7100268124","https://openalex.org/W1965264175","https://openalex.org/W2149420462","https://openalex.org/W1978685405","https://openalex.org/W1532605539","https://openalex.org/W2107942087","https://openalex.org/W2212826106","https://openalex.org/W1606178988","https://openalex.org/W105811479"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"INTRODUCTION":[0],"There":[1],"are":[2,26,30,173,205,218],"many":[3],"ways":[4],"to":[5,15,155,208,213,239],"change":[6,68],"a":[7,13,16,21,24,41,46,51,160,222,241],"theory.":[8],"The":[9,38,148],"tasks":[10],"of":[11,19,40,45,77,90,101,114,132,150,185,196,215,236],"adding":[12],"sentence":[14,22],"theory":[17,25,47,71],"and":[18,64,103,118,136,143,188,191,198],"retracting":[20],"from":[23,176],"non-trivial":[27],"because":[28],"they":[29],"usually":[31],"constrained":[32],"by":[33,141,228],"at":[34,82],"least":[35,83],"three":[36,84],"requirements.":[37],"result":[39],"revision":[42],"or":[43],"contraction":[44,99,227],"should":[48,59,66],"again":[49],"be":[50,60],"theory,":[52],"i.e.,":[53],"closed":[54,220],"under":[55,221],"logical":[56],"consequence,":[57],"it":[58,65,110,165],"consistent":[61],"whenever":[62],"possible,":[63],"not":[67,219],"the":[69,75,78,97,112,151,168,181,192,202],"original":[70],"beyond":[72],"necessity.":[73],"In":[74,162],"course":[76],"Alchourr\u00f3n-G\u00e4rdenfors-Makinson":[79],"research":[80],"programme,":[81],"different":[85,129,175],"methods":[86],"for":[87,123],"constructing":[88],"contractions":[89,172,184,195],"theories":[91,210],"have":[92,107],"been":[93],"proposed.":[94],"Among":[95],"these":[96],"\u201csafe":[98],"functions\u201d":[100],"Alchourr\u00f3n":[102,142],"Makinson":[104,119,144,189,199],"(1985,":[105],"1986)":[106],"played":[108],"as":[109],"were":[111],"role":[113],"an":[115],"outsider.":[116],"G\u00e4rdenfors":[117,187,197],"(1988,":[120],"p.":[121],"88)":[122],"instance":[124],"state":[125],"that":[126,157,167],"\u2018another,":[127],"quite":[128],",":[130],"way":[131],"doing":[133],"this":[134,158],"[contracting":[135],"revising":[137],"theories]":[138],"was":[139],"described":[140],"(1985).\u2019":[145],"(Italics":[146],"mine.)":[147],"aim":[149],"present":[152],"paper":[153],"is":[154,159],"show":[156],"miscasting.":[161],"any":[163],"case,":[164],"seems":[166],"intuitions":[169],"behind":[170,178],"safe":[171,226],"fundamentally":[174],"those":[177],"its":[179,229],"rivals,":[180],"partial":[182],"meet":[183],"Alchourr\u00f3n,":[186],"(1985)":[190],"epistemic":[193],"entrenchment":[194],"(1988).":[200],"Whereas":[201],"latter":[203],"notions":[204],"tailored":[206],"especially":[207],"handling":[209],"(as":[211],"opposed":[212],"sets":[214,235],"sentences":[216],"which":[217],"given":[223],"consequence":[224],"operation),":[225],"very":[230],"idea":[231],"focusses":[232],"on":[233],"minimal":[234],"premises":[237],"sufficient":[238],"derive":[240],"certain":[242],"sentence.":[243]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2012,"cited_by_count":1}],"updated_date":"2026-11-04T10:54:05.112534","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}