The relations of preference and indifference between alternatives are usually denoted by the symbols ≻ and ∼ or alternatively by P and I.
The ability to discriminate between alternatives, then put facts together to solve problems would be critical.
People may have freedom to choose between alternatives but the range of possibilities is determined elsewhere.
A dilemma is a difficult choice which has to be made between alternatives, desirable or, more usually, undesirable.
A party system that differentiates sharply between alternatives has virtues, not the least being that it engages more voters, offers clearer choices and enhances accountability.
When choosing between alternatives, we can only ask which is more likely to be correct, and which supporting argument is more plausible.
Many decisions over large-scale risks are not a matter of choosing between safe and risky alternatives, but between different risky alternatives, and often between alternatives whose risks are too qualitatively different to easily compare.
Or: relation between alternatives.
In contrast to geometry, no choices between alternatives are given in arithmetic.
That does not make it irrational to be indifferent between alternatives.
Utility functions indicated that the most severely penalised time varied between alternatives.
