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Reasoning with preferences?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2006

John Broome
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Rationality requires certain things of you. It requires you not to have contradictory beliefs or intentions, not to intend something you believe to be impossible, to believe what obviously follows from something you believe, and so on. Its requirements can be expressed using schemata such as:

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Research Article
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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 59: Preferences and Well-Being , December 2006 , pp. 183 - 208
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2006

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