Belief revision and incongruity: is it a joke?*
Florence Dupin de Saint-Cyr, Henri M. Prade · Journal of Applied Non-Classical Logics · 2023
Incongruity often makes people laugh. You have to be smart to say stupid things. It requires to be even smarter for understanding them. This paper is a shameless attempt to formalise this intelligent behaviour in the case of an agent listening to a joke. All this is a matter of revision of beliefs, surprise and violation of norms.