Towards an epistemic-logical theory of categorization
Résumé
Categorization systems are widely studied in psychology, sociology, and organization theory as information-structuring devices which are critical to decision-making processes. In the present paper, we introduce a sound and complete epistemic logic of categories and agents' categorical perception. The Kripke-style semantics of this logic is given in terms of data structures based on two domains: one domain representing objects (e.g. market products) and one domain representing the features of the objects which are relevant to the agents' decision-making. We use this framework to discuss and propose logic-based formalizations of some core concepts from psychological, sociological, and organizational research in catego-rization theory.
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Est une version de hal-01509416 Objet présenté à une conférence Willem Conradie, Sabine Frittella, Alessandra Palmigiano, Apostolos Tzimoulis, Nachoem Wijnberg. Toward an Epistemic-Logical Theory of Categorization. TARK 2017 Sixteenth conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, Jul 2017, Liverpool, United Kingdom. pp.167 - 186, ⟨10.4204/EPTCS.251.12⟩. ⟨hal-01509416⟩