Disagreement about logic from a pluralist perspective

Minimal (Disagreement About) Semantics

Disagreement about Inflation Expectations

Analyzing 50 years of inflation expectations data from several sources, we document substantial disagreement among both consumers and professional economists about expected future inflation. Moreover, this disagreement shows substantial variation through time, moving with inflation, the absolute value of the change in inflation, and relative price variability. We argue that a satisfactory model...

Scientists’ Uncertainty and Disagreement about Global Climate Change: A Psychological Perspective

Since there are major gaps in scientific knowledge about the greenhouse effect, policy makers are forced to rely on scientists’ judgments about the rate of climate change and its effects. It now appears that significant policy decisions will have to be made despite continuing uncertainty and disagreement among scientists. The best that policy makers can do is look for guidance in the best avail...

A Multi-modal Logic for Disagreement and Exhaustiveness

The paper explores two basic types of relations betwen objects of a Pawlak-style information system generated by the values of some attribute of those objects: disagreement (disjoint sets of values) and exhaustiveness (sets of values adding up to the whole universe of the attribute). Out of these two fundamental types of relations, most other types of relations on objects of an information syst...

Methodology in a Pluralist Environment

The future role for methodology will be conditioned both by the way in which its content has developed in the direction of pluralism, and by the growth and specialisation of the field. The paper suggests that, for methodology to steer a successful course between foundationalism and relativism, there needs to be clarity about the meta-methodological frameworks which methodologists employ (since ...