Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

This paper describes a model of belief systems called belief relativity (BR), which addresses the relationships and structure of knowledge held by multiple interacting agents. This paradigm uses belief reference frames (b-frames) as the main unit of belief spaces, within which an agent's beliefs are stored. B R is concerned with how beliefs are created and revised, how they influence each other within or between b-frames, and how one searches for b-frames that are useful (e.g., that remove contradictions). B R also deals with degrees of belief, propagated along the influences that relate beliefs and b-frames to each other. B R attempts to combine the best features of these idejis into a unified, synergistic framework.