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Dynamic update of information states is a new paradigm in logicalsemantics. But such updates are also a traditional hallmark ofprobabilistic reasoning. This note brings the two perspectives togetherin an update mechanism for probabilities which modifies state spaces.
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van Benthem, J. Conditional Probability Meets Update Logic. Journal of Logic, Language and Information 12, 409–421 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025002917675
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