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Similarity in logical reasoning and decision-making

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2005

Horacio Arló-Costa*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213http://www.phil.cmu.edu/faculty/arlocosta/

Abstract

Normative accounts in terms of similarity can be deployed in order to provide semantics for systems of context-free default rules and other sophisticated conditionals. In contrast, procedural accounts of decision in terms of similarity (Rubinstein 1997) are hard to reconcile with the normative rules of rationality used in decision-making, even when suitably weakened.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2005

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