Professor Laszlo Polos laszlo.polos@durham.ac.uk
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Reasoning with partial knowledge
Pólos, L.; Hannan, M.T.
Authors
M.T. Hannan
Abstract
We investigate how sociological argumentation differs from classical first–order logic. We focus on theories about age dependence of organizational mortality. The overall pattern of argument does not comply with the classical monotonicity principle: Adding premises overturns conclusions in an argument. The cause of nonmonotonicity is the need to derive conclusions from partial knowledge. We identify metaprinciples that appear to guide the observed sociological argumentation patterns, and we formalize a semantics to represent them. This semantics yields a new kind of logical consequence relation. We demonstrate that this new logic can reproduce the results of informal sociological theorizing and lead to new insights. It allows us to unify existing theory fragments, and it paves the way toward a complete classical theory.
Citation
Pólos, L., & Hannan, M. (2002). Reasoning with partial knowledge. Sociological Methodology, 32(1), 133-181. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9531.00114
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Publication Date | 2002 |
Deposit Date | Mar 28, 2007 |
Journal | Sociological Methodology |
Print ISSN | 0081-1750 |
Electronic ISSN | 1467-9531 |
Publisher | American Sociological Association |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 32 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 133-181 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9531.00114 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1625026 |
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