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{{Short description|School of thought within decision theory}} ...sion theory]] (EDT), which recommends the action which would be indicative of the best outcome if one received the "news" that it had been taken.<ref nam ...

...thical Connotations |date=1992 |work=Rational Interaction: Essays in Honor of John C. Harsanyi |pages=305–319 |editor-last=Selten |editor-first=Reinhard ...orem states that any [[social choice function]] is given by a weighted sum of individual [[utility function]]s, so long as the social choice function sat ...

...first to counter-intuitive choices, and then to incoherence as the utility of every choice becomes unbounded. ...many objections to the Pascal's Wager dilemma that are based on the nature of infinity.{{Sfn|Bostrom|2009}} ...

...epeated head-to-head matchups, voters will (on average) prefer the results of a maximal lottery to the results produced by any other [[voting rule]]. ...ttp://dss.in.tum.de/files/brandt-research/welfare.pdf Arrovian Aggregation of Convex Preferences]. Econometrica. 88(2), pages 799-844, 2020.</ref> ...

...-indian-languages/first-steps-to-jainism-part-2/the-indian-jaina-dialectic-of-syadvad-part-2/|website=Jain World|accessdate=28 November 2016}} (Dialectic ...ic and the Philosophical Basis of Pluralism|journal=History and Philosophy of Logic|date=2002|volume=23|issue=4 |pages=267–281|url=https://www.academia.e ...

{{Short description|Theorized increase of longevity with age}} ...y effect corresponds to lifetimes following a [[Pareto distribution|Pareto probability distribution]]. ...

...[[wikt:doxastic|doxastic]] attitude. For example, a perceptual experience of a tree may serve as evidence to justify the belief that there is a tree. In ...[[theory-ladenness]] are two obstacles that threaten to undermine the role of scientific evidence. ...

...n on following a specific set of statistics depending on the configuration of the device. ...in's device is a pedagogical tool to introduce the unconventional features of quantum mechanics to a larger public. ...

...arch 2016 | author=Lachlan Dufton and Kate Larson | book-title=Proceedings of the IJCAI-2011 Workshop on Social Choice and Artificial Intelligence | year * (b) Determine the amount each partner should pay, such that the sum of payments equals the fixed cost. ...

...at positively influencing the long-term [[future]] is a key moral priority of our time. It is an important concept in [[effective altruism]] and a primar ...er suggest, to those advocating longtermism, that it is the responsibility of those living now to ensure that future generations get to survive and flour ...

...ater = [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]], [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] | footnotes = He was the father of [[William De Morgan]]. ...

{{About|the orbits of electrons|valence shell|Valence electron}} ...n|Nuclear artillery}}{{redirect-synonym|D-shell|the shield-connecting part of [[D-sub]] connectors}} ...

{{Short description|Interpretation of quantum mechanics}} {{Quantum mechanics|cTopic=[[Interpretation of quantum mechanics|Interpretations]]}} ...

{{short description|Study of the scope and nature of logic}} ...to the philosophy of logic as the discipline investigating the properties of formal logical systems, like [[consistency]] and [[Completeness (logic)|com ...

[[File:Macro history economists.jpg|thumb|alt=Composite images of various people related to macroeconomic theory.| ...thought that [[market clearing|markets always clear]], leaving no surplus of goods and no willing labor left idle.{{sfn|Snowdon|Vane|2005|p=69}} ...

...s]], in which case there exists no well-defined optimal choice. An example of this is [[Efron dice]]. ...s://plato.stanford.edu/entries/preferences/ |journal=Stanford Encyclopedia of Economics}}</ref> ...

{{Short description|Quantum state, of opposed conditions}} ...y distinct states is also referred to as a cat state. A cat state could be of one or more modes or particles, therefore it is not necessarily an entangle ...

...ero. Negative marginal utility implies that every consumed additional unit of a commodity causes more harm than good, leading to a decrease in overall ut ...Utility |url=https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/economics/law-of-diminishing-marginal-utility/ |website=Corporate Finance institute |languag ...

{{Short description|Study of correct reasoning}} {{About|the study of correct reasoning||Logic (disambiguation)|and|Logician (disambiguation)}} ...

{{Short description|Branch of applied mathematics}} ...08). "mathematical economics", section II, ''[[The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics]]'', 2nd Edition. [http://www.dictionaryofeconomics.com/article?i ...