Incomparability and Incommensurability in Choice: No Common Currency of Value?

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<p>Models of decision-making typically assume the existence of some common currency of value, such as utility, happiness, or inclusive fitness. This common currency is taken to allow comparison of options and to underpin everyday choice. Here we suggest instead that there is no universal value scale, that incommensurable values pervade everyday choice, and hence that most existing models of decision-making in both...

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bf6f0366-9081-5688-95ff-0eb8bbc41c6c

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10.31234/osf.io/suw47