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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NL888 What does "the agent" refer to? The person accessing/utilizing the consideration-generator, that is all.
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NL888 What does "the agent" refer to?The person accessing/utilizing the consideration-generator, that is all.