The Logic of the New Theory and Misrepresentations of the Logic

T he comment by Markovsky, Willer, l Simpson, and Lovaglia (1997, henceforward MWSL) contains fundamental flaws in their discussion of the main properties of my theory and mathematical model and in their criticism of my method of comparing predictions from the model with the empirical results, which I presented in my original paper (Yamaguchi 1996). MWSL fail to understand the logic and properties of my theory almost every time it differs from their theory, and they have ignored explanations in my paper that would serve to correct their misrepresentations of my theory. This reply provides an opportunity for me to demonstrate that, in their comment, MWSL selectively ignore those parts of my theory that invalidate their assertions.