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(2004) Synthese 139 (3).
Transformative decision rules, permutability, and non-sequential framing of decision problems
Martin Peterson
pp. 387-403
The concept of transformative decision rules provides auseful tool for analyzing what is often referred to as the`framing', or `problem specification', or `editing' phase ofdecision making. In the present study we analyze a fundamentalaspect of transformative decision rules, viz. permutability. A setof transformative decision rules is, roughly put, permutable justin case it does not matter in which order the rules are applied.It is argued that in order to be normatively reasonable, sets oftransformative decision rules have to satisfy a number ofstructural conditions that together imply permutability. Thisformal result gives support to a non-sequential theory of framing,i.e., a theory which prescribes no uniform order in which differentsteps in the framing process have to be performed.
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DOI: 10.1023/B:SYNT.0000024885.09894.ba
Full citation:
Peterson, M. (2004). Transformative decision rules, permutability, and non-sequential framing of decision problems. Synthese 139 (3), pp. 387-403.
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