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Modelling socio-political competition

Logic 2021-05-19 v1

Abstract

This paper continues the investigation of the logic of competing theories, be they scientific, social, political etc. We introduce a many-valued, multi-type modal language which we endow with relational semantics based on enriched reflexive graphs, inspired by Plo\v{s}\v{c}ica's representation of general lattices. We axiomatize the resulting many-valued, non-distributive modal logic of these structures and prove a completeness theorem. We illustrate the application of this logic through a case study in which we model competition among interacting political promises and social demands within an arena of political parties social groups.

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@article{arxiv.1908.04817,
  title  = {Modelling socio-political competition},
  author = {Willem Conradie and Alessandra Palmigiano and Claudette Robinson and Apostolos Tzimoulis and Nachoem M. Wijnberg},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.04817},
  year   = {2021}
}

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24 pages

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