* Has anyone come across further developments in this space since then? I don’t know if this is relevant, but I was looking for some treatment of trust and belief and found: http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-1259/proceedings.pdf#page=83 I was looking for a framework which at the bottom modeled an utterance of an assertion as an attempt to change the belief of the receiver, and had some notion of trust and trustworthy sources, such that trust of a source is the function you apply to someone else’s assertions before incorporating those statements into your own beliefs. Trust no one (completely), not even your own memory. Mistrust can come from the source being misinformed, deliberately lying, poor logic, or a misunderstanding of the meaning of terms. In this kind of theory, everything is relative, an individual’s “knowledge” is just “belief, held firmly”, and “facts” are “beliefs, held widely, by highly trustworthy sources”. Larry -- https://LarryMasinter.net
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