Howson and Urbach's formal Bayesianepistemology demonstrates that coherent belief revision is fully characterized by conditionalization, leaving no formal role for explanatory considerations as independent update triggers.
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Update triggers(as what prompts a revision of beliefs)
The reasons or mechanisms that cause someone to change their beliefs when new information comes in.
conditionalization(Bayesian epistemology)
The process of updating prior beliefs to interim beliefs by conditioning on the agent's hard information
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs