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Desire, belief, and conditional belief
… judgments as expressions of desire, rather than beliefs about goodness. Inference ticket theories of conditionals treat them as expressions of conditional beliefs, rather than propositions. The two issues intersect in decision theory, where judgments of expected goodness are expressible by means …
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Studies in belief and belief attribution
… and it consists in describing the content of the beliefs of people who are willing to assent to pairs like (1) 'Hesperus is nice' and (2) 'Phosphorus is not nice.' I assume an interpretivist account of belief content, according to which an agent has the beliefs that best explain her behavior, and …
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OCCURRENT BELIEF.
OCCURRENT BELIEF.
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Suspension of Belief
… Neils' Master's Thesis Exhibition Suspension of Belief, an art installation and performance during which the artist created a bedroom-like space and slept in the Gallery of Visual Arts for the three week duration of the exhibition. The statement for the show read: Suspension of Belief explores …
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Suspension of Belief
… Neils' Master's Thesis Exhibition Suspension of Belief, an art installation and performance during which the artist created a bedroom-like space and slept in the Gallery of Visual Arts for the three week duration of the exhibition. The statement for the show read: Suspension of Belief explores …
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Belief and evidence
… but each has problems of its own. Chapter 2, 'Belief and Probability,' argues that rational belief doesn't reduce to subjective probability. Under the right circumstances, I argue, acquiring conflicting evidence can defeat your entitlement to believe a certain hypothesis without …
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Belief is Messy
Belief is messy; but if we are careful, it can be tamed. This guiding slogan anchors my thesis, which navigates the complexities of belief regarding three central topics: the conditions under which beliefs should be revised, how our inductively justified beliefs are structured, and what our …
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Testimony Without Belief
… is primarily a way in which speakers transmit beliefs to hearers. If this is the case, then in order to transmit the belief that p, the speaker must be in possession of a belief that p. Other epistemologists reject this view altogether and argue that when speakers stand in the right sort of …
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TOPIC SENSITIVE BELIEF REVISION
When asked to change one's beliefs in the face of new information, or to revise a book given errata, we commonly strive to keep our changes relevant, that is, we try to restrict the beliefs (or chapters) we change to those that bear some content relation to the new information. One kind of …
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Belief layer for Haystack
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
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Sparse Matrix Belief Propagation
We propose sparse-matrix belief propagation, which executes loopy belief propagation in Markov random fields by replacing indexing over graph neighborhoods with sparse-matrix operations. This abstraction allows for seamless integration with optimized sparse linear algebra libraries, including those …
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Belief Change in Reasoning Agents
The capability of changing beliefs upon new information in a rational and efficient way is crucial for an intelligent agent. Belief change therefore is one of the central research fields in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for over two decades. In the AI literature, two different kinds of belief change …
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Race, belief and interpersonal attraction
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Psychology, 1971
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Enduring Belief: Performance, Trauma, Religion
<p>The medium of performance art locates both the art-making subject and the art object in the body of the artist. Performance art thus serves as an appropriate medium for integrating the complex, repetitive, and often unconscious somatic knowledges developed by two distinct experiences: the …
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Belief propagation generative adversarial networks
… and perform probabilistic inference using loopy belief propagation on continuous Markov random fields. Experiments on the MNIST dataset show that our model is able to outperform vanilla GANs with more than two iterations of belief propagation.
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A problem of belief ascription
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-79).
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On the metaphysics of belief
There is a traditional picture of belief, according to which someone's having a belief is that person's standing in a certain relation to an abstract object, a proposition. My dissertation examines the metaphysical demands that two problems for this picture of belief make on these abstract objects. …
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