The premiss-based approach to judgment aggregation |
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Authors: | Franz Dietrich |
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Affiliation: | a London School of Economics, Dept. of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom b HEC School of Management and CNRS, 1 rue de la Libération, 78350 Jouy-en-Josas, France |
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Abstract: | In the framework of judgment aggregation, we assume that some formulas of the agenda are singled out as premisses, and that both Independence (formula-wise aggregation) and Unanimity Preservation hold for them. Whether premiss-based aggregation thus defined is compatible with conclusion-based aggregation, as defined by Unanimity Preservation on the non-premisses, depends on how the premisses are logically connected, both among themselves and with other formulas. We state necessary and sufficient conditions under which the combination of both approaches leads to dictatorship (resp. oligarchy), either just on the premisses or on the whole agenda. Our analysis is inspired by the doctrinal paradox of legal theory and is arguably relevant to this field as well as political science and political economy. When the set of premisses coincides with the whole agenda, a limiting case of our assumptions, we obtain several existing results in judgment aggregation theory. |
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Keywords: | D70 D71 |
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