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The logic of KM belief update is contained in the logic of AGM belief revision

Giacomo Bonanno
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Abstract

For each axiom of KM belief update we provide a corresponding axiom in a modal logic containing three modal operators: a unimodal belief operator BB, a bimodal conditional operator >> and the unimodal necessity operator \square. We then compare the resulting logic to the similar logic obtained from converting the AGM axioms of belief revision into modal axioms and show that the latter contains the former. Denoting the latter by LAGM\mathcal L_{AGM} and the former by LKM\mathcal L_{KM} we show that every axiom of LKM\mathcal L_{KM} is a theorem of LAGM\mathcal L_{AGM}. Thus AGM belief revision can be seen as a special case of KM belief update. For the strong version of KM belief update we show that the difference between LKM\mathcal L_{KM} and LAGM\mathcal L_{AGM} can be narrowed down to a single axiom, which deals exclusively with unsurprising information, that is, with formulas that were not initially disbelieved.

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