Sentence examples for rationality of an from inspiring English sources

That is because the rationality of an action depends of the expected costs and benefits and not on their distribution.

Then, we present our system model and depict the two common economic properties (truthfulness and individual rationality) of an auction.

The rationality of an agent in sound normative shape is then a matter of his motivating reasons conforming to and reflecting the good normative reasons available to him.

Sure, the theory has much to say about assessing the rationality of an agent's preference attitudes once these attitudes are suitably expressed relative to a particular representation of the agent's decision situation.

Thus while one condition for the rationality of an adaptive preference for Elster is that it be autonomously acquired, for Bruckner, it is that the preference be autonomously retained (319).

Hobbes then points out that the correct standard for judging the rationality of an action is one that rests on the expected returns of the action, and not the actual ones, and that in cases where promise breakers eluded detection the action could still be irrational, as the expected returns were insufficient to justify the risk.

Scientific probability has been defined as "degree of rational belief" or "degree of rationality of a belief" (Popper 1959).

That's what Reinhard Selten and I call the study of the ecological rationality of a heuristic.

His commentaries depict only the low-grade rationality of a warped mind driven by vindictive, defensive, and falsely redemptive motives.

The war against Obamacare: All the rationality of a Justin Bieber fan riot, and all the restraint of "Saw VI".

The rationality of a controversial design method, in which the upstream and the downstream parts of the right abutment are stabilized according to different standards, is also discussed.