Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics

Working Papers in Economics,
University of Gothenburg, Department of Economics

No 275: Testing Rationality on Primitive Knowledge

Olivier Gossner () and Elias Tsakas ()
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Olivier Gossner: Paris School of Economics, Postal: UMR CNRS-EHESS-ENPC-ENS 8545,, Paris, France
Elias Tsakas: Department of Economics, School of Business, Economics and Law, Göteborg University, Postal: Box 640, SE 40530 GÖTEBORG

Abstract: We study whether rational information processing is testable. Our main result shows that, under positive conditions, negative introspection holds if and only if it holds for primitive propositions. In particular, it is sufficient to test negative introspection on primitive propositions.

Keywords: Partitional possibility correspondence; negative introspection; primitive propositions

JEL-codes: D80; D83; D89

14 pages, October 12, 2007

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