Sentence examples for a complete preference from inspiring English sources
If humans could only perform binary comparisons, the most efficient procedure a human might employ to make a complete preference ordering of n items would be a n log2n algorithm.
Still, the challenge is to come up with a complete preference ordering over all outcomes of interest.
The Bayesian decision maker is assumed to make her choices in accordance with a complete preference ordering over the available options.
As noted in Section 4, criticisms of the EU requirement of a complete preference ordering are motivated by both epistemic and desire/value considerations.
Behind what we perceive as an incomplete preference relation there may be a complete preference relation that we can arrive at through observation, introspection, logical inference, or some other means of discovery.
For instance, certain substituents at C-4 lead to a complete preference for AarA (L14, L44, and L46) over GlpG.
Fischhoff has suggested that preferences are not complete but are developed and clarified by trial and error i.e. that the process of elicitation is an integral part of a process of preference development, rather than a neutral method by which an already complete preference is measured [ 10].
One issue worth singling out here, given its relevance to the compatibility of EU theory with prominent positions in ethics, is the assumption of a single complete preference ordering.
The expressed and purified Nox4 DH domain also shows a nearly complete preference for NADPH over NADH.
If those conditions really are applicable to intrapersonal conflict (as Steedman and Krause 1986 argue), then an agent who is rational in the sense that she has reasons for her evaluations (i.e. aspect preferences) may well not be rational in the sense that she has a transitive and complete preference ordering that can be mechanically derived (via a formation rule) from these reasons.
One therefore cannot expect that agents in all cases do come up with a transitive and complete preference ordering.
