In light of research indicating that individual behavior may violate standard rationality assumptions, we introduce a model of preference aggregation in which neither individual nor collective preferences must satisfy transitivity or other coherence conditions. We introduce an ordinal rationality measure to compare preference relations. Using this measure, we introduce a new axiom, monotonicity...

It is argued that if we take grounding to be univocal, then there is a serious tension between truthgrounding and one commonly assumed structural principle for grounding, namely transitivity. The primary claim of the paper is that truth-grounding cannot be transitive. Accordingly, it is either the case that grounding is not transitive or that truth-grounding is not grounding, or both.

According to the classical result by Segerberg and Maksimova, a modal logic containing K4 is locally tabular i↵ it is of finite height. The notion of finite height can also be defined for logics, in which the master modality is expressible (‘pretransitive’ logics). We observe that every locally tabular logic is a pretransitive logic of finite height. Then we prove some semantic criteria of loca...

Social networks based trust is a promising approach to supporting people and software agents to interact with “strangers” on the Web. A necessary condition for trust propagation in social networks is that trust is transitive. However, is trust transitive? What types of trust are transitive and why? There are few theories and models found to answer these fundamental questions in a formal manner....