Preferences as Conclusions
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This paper is an informal and preliminary investigation of how in a logical framework we might account for how we come to have a large, complex system of conditional desires. I try to show how work that has been done in the formalization of causal reasoning might be adapted to show how this is possible.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003