Choices, consequences, and rationality

DOI10.1023/A:1017333227870MaRDI QIDQ1611230zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Walter Bossert

Publication date 21 August 2002

Published in Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1017333227870

zbMATH Keywords

choice functionpreference relationrationality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Individual preferences (91B08)

Review text

In the framework discussed in this paper, rationalizibility is defined as follows. The choices of sets of possible outcomes that are induced by the choices from menus leading to these sets of consequences are rationalizable if there exists a relation \(R\) such that the chosen sets of possible outcomes are the best elements among the feasible sets. By some additional restrictions the main results provide necessary and sufficient conditions for the rationalizability of choices under uncertainty about consequences.

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