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Section: Perceptions and politics
Panel: Approaches to belief choice or change
Paper: Rational belief changes for collective agents

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David Westlund david@westlund.fm GOTEBORGS Universitet

Abstract
The possibility of ascribing rational changes of beliefs to collectives is discussed. Limits on what a collective can believe are inferred from the assumption that the collective should change its belief in α if all its members change their belief in α. It is also shown that some very reasonable assumptions about the collective beliefs results in an inconsistency.

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