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SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
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The agent is in the main reasonable?
Does "the agent" refer to "the person who's making a decision"?
Does "the agent is in the main reasonable" mean "the agent is in course of being main reasonable"?
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The model of decision making I am proposing has the following feature: when we are faced with an important decision, a consideration-generator whose output is to some degree undetermined produces a series of considerations, some of which may of course be immediately rejected as irrelevant by the agent (consciously or unconsciously). Those considerations that are selected by the agent as having a more than negligible bearing on the decision then figure in a reasoning process, and if the agent is in the main reasonable, those considerations ultimately serve as predictors and explicators of the agent's final decision.[18]
Does "the agent is in the main reasonable" mean "the agent is in course of being main reasonable"?
Context:
The model of decision making I am proposing has the following feature: when we are faced with an important decision, a consideration-generator whose output is to some degree undetermined produces a series of considerations, some of which may of course be immediately rejected as irrelevant by the agent (consciously or unconsciously). Those considerations that are selected by the agent as having a more than negligible bearing on the decision then figure in a reasoning process, and if the agent is in the main reasonable, those considerations ultimately serve as predictors and explicators of the agent's final decision.[18]
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SweetFreedom Does "the agent" refer to "the person who's making a decision"? That's what I would infer from the text, yes. SweetFreedom Does "the agent is in the main reasonable" mean "the agent is in course of being main reasonable"?
- SweetFreedom Does "the agent" refer to "the person who's making a decision"?
- That's what I would infer from the text, yes.
- SweetFreedom Does "the agent is in the main reasonable" mean "the agent is in course of being main reasonable"?
- 'If the agent is generally a reasonable person'
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SweetFreedomDoes "the agent" refer to "the person who's making a decision"?That's what I would infer from the text, yes.
SweetFreedomDoes "the agent is in the main reasonable" mean "the agent is in course of being main reasonable"?'If the agent is generally a reasonable person'
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