Perhaps there is always a way to contrive decision models such that acts are intuitively probabilistically independent of states.
Skyrms shows that any such agent who plans to learn in a manner at odds with conditionalisation will make self-defeating choices in some specially contrived sequential decision situations.
Equally contrived is Finnamore's decision to refer to the titular zygote as "you," which leads to falsely intimate meditations of a sophistication that no mother would have with her child before he or she reached teendom, and possibly not even then.
It sounds curiously akin to what Justice Scalia described in his dissenting opinion in the landmark abortion case of Planned Parenthood of Pennsylvania v..Casey, where he viciously mocked the majority for its "contrived," "fabricated," and "arrogant" decision.
Right to the final detail -- which, not surprisingly, turned out to be some haggle over video game rights -- Jordan and the N.B.A. contrived the drama, as if the decision hadn't been reached for months.
Governments may decide to expropriate or nationalize foreign-held assets or enact contrived policy changes following an investor's decision to acquire assets in the host country.
Saltires were waved in Tripoli and brickbats hurled from Washington; yet, even as he insisted the decision was Scotland's alone, Mr Salmond contrived to deflect much of the blame onto Gordon Brown.
Now, however, the administration and FCC no longer leave themselves open to the criticism that this major decision was made with a 2-1 majority contrived by partisan operatives.
But it seemed to mean a very contrived, internalised style of leadership that in some senses replicated the decision-making of the brotherhood of ANC veterans locked up for so long on Robben Island, the nascent authoritarianism of the fix.
That England found themselves within minutes of potentially winning the game, despite the delaying tactics, was down to both captains making the creditable decision to contrive a contest on the final day through some aggressive batting and a generous declaration by Australia.
But he approves of the team's approach of monitoring the traders at work because it captures the person making decisions in a habitual, true-to-life environment, rather than a contrived laboratory task.
