Abstract This essay examines the term duoyuan yiti , ‘pluralistic unity’, in cultural and artistic contexts China its use everyday speech form of metaphors. It briefly introduces history this provides examples political speech, academic writing grassroots communication. The article also analyses discourses, phrases ideas that have been constructed around noting their profound impact on social l...

Causal analysis in the social sciences takes advantage of a variety of methods and of a multi-fold source of information and evidence. This pluralistic methodology and source of information raises the question of whether we should accordingly have a pluralistic metaphysics and epistemology. This paper focuses on epistemology and argues that a pluralistic methodology and evidence don’t entail a ...

Academic and corporate research departments alike face a crucial dilemma: to exploit known frameworks or to explore new ones; to specialize or to innovate? Here I show that these two conflicting epistemic desiderata are sufficient to explain pluralistic ignorance and its boom-and-bust-like dynamics, exemplified in the collapse of the efficient markets hypothesis as a modern risk management para...

Introduction There is growing interest in organizational knowledge, and in the associated concepts of organizational learning and memory (Cohen and Sproull, 1991). Many argue that the organization’s knowledge and learning capabilities are the main source of its competitive advantage (e.g. Kogut and Zander, 1992; Prahalad and Hamel, 1990; Starbuck, 1992). But a number of other authors (Bedeian, ...

In this paper, the possibility of modeling the phenomenon “pluralistic ignorance” from social psychology, using epistemic/doxastic logic, is investigated. It is shown that the straightforward formalization of pluralistic ignorance does not capture the phenomenon completely. What is needed in addition is an assumption about the interplay between different agents’ beliefs or an assumption about h...