Rationality As Conformity
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چکیده
We argue in favour of identifying one aspect of rational choice with the tendency to conform to the choice you expect another like-minded, but non-communicating, agent to make and study this idea in the very basic case where the choice is from a non-empty subset K of 2A and no further structure or knowledge of A is assumed.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Synthese
دوره 144 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2005