Philosophical Aspects of Incommensurability and Incomparability
Volume 12, Issue 1 (2001), pp. 119–132
Pub. online: 1 January 2001
Type: Research Article
This article is based on a paper presented at the 52nd meeting of the European working group “Multicriteria Aid for Decisions”, 5th to 7th October 2000 in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Received
1 January 2001
1 January 2001
Published
1 January 2001
1 January 2001
Abstract
Ex ante decision analysis has other problems than ex post analysis. One of the problems is the nature of the value system of the deciding person. Mostly, it will contain different values (criteria, points of view) which are not reducible to one measure. These cases of incommensurability are one reason for the incomparability of the decision options. There are other reasons why it seems highly unrealistic that we may assume the comparability of options as a general case for a rational decision maker.