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With characteristic incisiveness Georg Henrik von Wright identifies prohairetic logic (i.e. the logic of preference) as the core of a general theory of value concepts. Essentially, this nucleus involves the logical study of acts from the point of view of their preferability.1 (italics added) Though the term prohairesis is found in Plato, as well as in Aristotle’s treatment of the relations of preference, it is von Wright who introduces this word into contemporary analytical philosophy, and succinctly specifies the philosophical dimensions it encompasses.
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Von Wright, Georg Henrik “The Logic of Action - A Sketch,” in The Logic of Decision and Action University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967, pp. 135–136.
Vickers, John M., Belief and Probability D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht- Holland/Boston-U.S.A., 1976, pp. 59–60.
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Moutafakis, N.J. (1987). Introduction. In: The Logics of Preference. Episteme, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3975-2_1
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