Mixed Theories

Citation: Serdica Journal of Computing, Vol. 1, No 1, (2007), 101p-114p

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10525/332

Abstract: In the present paper we investigate the life cycles of formalized theories that appear in decision making instruments and science. In few words mixed theories are build in the following steps: Initially a small collection of facts is the kernel of the theory. To express these facts we make a special formalized language. When the collection grows we add some inference rules and thus some axioms to compress the knowledge. The next step is to generalize these rules to all expressions in the formalized language. For these rules we introduce some conclusion procedure. In such a way we make small theories for restricted fields of the knowledge. The most important procedure is the mixing of these partial knowledge systems. In that step we glue the theories together and eliminate the contradictions. The last operation is the most complicated one and some simplifying procedures are proposed.

Publisher: Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of SciencesSubject: Formal Theories Expert Systems Logical Inference Argumentation Systems