Vocational androgogy for law and business logic
Pamela N Gray
Working Paper 19/06
December 2006
About the Author
Dr Pamela Mathews, Lecturer, School of Commerce, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
Charles Sturt University – Faculty of Business Working Paper Series
Managing Editor: Associate Professor Jayne Bisman, School of Accounting, Bathurst
Editors: Dr P. Mathews, School of Commerce, Wagga Wagga
Associate Professor M. O'Mullane, School of Business, Albury
Dr R. Tierney, School of Marketing and Management, Bathurst
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Table of Contents
- Abstract
- Disjunction and informed decision-making
- Epistemology of eGanges
- Demonstration eGanges applet
- Sample eGanges applications
- Paradigm shift in human intelligence
- References
Abstract
The disciplines of business use various epistemological techniques, including systems analysis and design, to produce profit. However, like most disciplines, their use of logic is flexible if not chaotic; it requires analysis and design of a logic system for the strategic use of deduction, induction and abduction to optimize and sustain profit. The complex logic system shell, eGanges was designed for the legal domain, according to a meta-epistemological methodology for the field of artificial intelligence. Law is a major business discipline, although it also stands alone as a discipline in its own right. The legal domain epistemology was found to use a paradigm similar to the Ishikawa fishbone that was originally developed for quality control management. eGanges systematizes the use of logic in a way common for law and business; its computational epistemology is seamless for androgogy and informed, on-the-job decision-making in fields that use complex systems of rules, procedures, policies, strategies and causation.