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    Challenges→An option is self-ratifying if and only if it maximizes expected utility given its realization.

    If multiple options are simultaneously self-ratifying in a single decision matrix, the criterion fails to uniquely prescribe action and collapses into permissivism rather than decision theory.

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    Key Terms

    Decision theory(the main subject being discussed)
    A branch of philosophy and mathematics that studies how people should make choices when facing different options with uncertain outcomes.
    criterion(as used in philosophy to describe a test for whether an idea works)
    A standard or rule used to decide whether something counts as true or valid.
    decision matrix(in decision theory)
    A table or framework that lays out all your possible choices and the outcomes of each one, so you can compare them and pick the best option.
    permissivism(epistemology of disagreement)
    The view that the same set of evidence can license different doxastic attitudes toward a proposition
    self-ratifying(in decision theory)

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    A choice that justifies itself by its own logic—if you pick it, you can't argue that you should have picked something else instead.
    uniquely prescribe action(in decision theory)
    To give one clear answer about what you should do, with no other equally good alternatives.

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