caa a22 4500 46577945X CHVBK 20180323111951.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19901201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00370165 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00370165 Arlo Costa Horacio University of Buenos Aires, Argentina aut Conditionals and monotonic belief revisions: the success postulate [Elektronische Daten] [Horacio Arlo Costa] One of the main applications of the logic of theory change is to the epistemic analysis of conditionals via the so-called Ramsey test. In the first part of the present note this test is studied in the "limiting case” where the theory being revised is inconsistent, and it is shown that this case manifests an intrinsic incompatibility between the Ramsey test and the AGM postulate of "success”. The paper then analyses the use of the postulate of success, and a weakening of it, generating axioms of conditional logic via the test, and it is shown that for certain purposes both success and weak success are quite superfluous. This suggests the proposal of abandoning both success and weak success entirely, thus permitting retention of the postulate of "preservation” discarded by Gärdenfors. Polish Academy of Sciences, 1990 Studia Logica Kluwer Academic Publishers 49/4(1990-12-01), 557-566 0039-3215 49:4<557 1990 49 11225 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00370165 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00370165 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Arlo Costa Horacio University of Buenos Aires, Argentina aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Studia Logica Kluwer Academic Publishers 49/4(1990-12-01), 557-566 0039-3215 49:4<557 1990 49 11225 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer