A Place for Theoretical Inconsistency

A Theoretical Grounding for Semantic Descriptions of Place

This paper is motivated by the problem of how to provide better access to ever enlarging collections of digital images. The paper opens by examining the concept of place in geographic theory and suggests how it might provide a way of providing keywords suitable for indexing of images. The paper then focuses on the specific challenge of how places are described in natural language, drawing on pr...

On inconsistency of a pairwise comparison matrix

Learning from Data with Bounded Inconsistency: Theoretical and Experimental Results

This paper presents an approach to concept learning from inconsistent data that foregoes a solution to the full-blown problem and instead considers a subcase, called bounded inconsistency. Data are said to have bounded inconsistency when some small perturbation to the description of any bad instance will result in a good instance. The key idea to learning in the presence of bounded inconsistenc...

Peculiar Results and Theoretical Inconsistency of New Keynesian Models

In this paper, several flaws of the basic no-capital/labor-only New Keynesian model, as in Gaĺı (2008), are discussed. Some flaws were left undiscovered because mass of varieties n in Dixit-Stiglitz aggregator is often considered as not affecting overall outcomes. Only when n = 1 would ordinary results of the basic New Keynesian model hold. To save the theory, we consider the case where product...

Making inconsistency respectable: a logical framework for inconsistency in reasoning

We claim there is a fundamental diierence between the way humans handle inconsistency and the way it is currently handled in formal logical systems: To a human, resolving inconsistencies is not necessarily done by \restoring" consistency but by supplying rules telling one how to act when the inconsistency arises. For artiicial intelligence there is an urgent need to revise the view that inconsi...