Rechenauer (2008) claims that weak preference is a better starting point for preference relations than strict preferences. This contention is challenged. Definitional connections between weak and strict preference are suggested that lead to the opposite conclusion. This is not taken as a justification of the superiority of strict over weak preference as the primitive preference relation, but ju...

I present evidence in this paper for a universal preference for clause-initial adverbial subordinators (subordinate conjunctions marking subordinate clauses) over clause-final subordinators. The evidence cited is based on a database containing word order characteristics for a crosslinguistic sample of 625 languages (cf. Dryer 1989b, 1991, 1992). This preference is somewhat similar to a preferen...

Complimenting behavior, as a common speech act of human beings, has become an intriguing topic in linguistics and its sub-branches. Compliment responses can be seen as solutions for maintaining a balance between (1) a preference to avoid self-praise and (2) a preference to accept or agree with the compliment (Pomerantz 1978). In the present study, the definition of a compliment draws on the wor...

In this paper we wish to establish the integral representations of generalized relative type and generalized relative weak type as introduced by Datta et al [9]. We also investigate their equivalence relation under some certain conditions.

This paper shows how revealed preference relations, observed under general budget sets, can be extended using closure operators which impose certain assumptions on preferences. Common extensions are based on the assumption that preferences are convex and/or monotonic, but we also consider satiated single-peaked preferences. For the obtained extended relations, the paper provides necessary and s...

In group decision-making, experts’ preferences are usually expressed by means of fuzzy preference relations. Because not all experts may be capable of maintaining consistency between all the possible pair of feasible options of the problem, it is worthwhile evaluating the degree of inconsistency of a fuzzy preference relation so that more importance can be given to the more consistent experts. ...

In the article the formal characterization of preference spaces [1] is given. As the preference relation is one of the very basic notions of mathematical economics [9], it prepares some ground for a more thorough formalization of consumer theory (although some work has already been done – see [17]). There was an attempt to formalize similar results in Mizar, but this work seems still unfinished...