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In situations represented as decisions under certainty, the actor chooses among a set of alternatives in one-to-one correspondence with a set of outcomes. If the actor knows which of the outcomes he most prefers, clearly the rational choice is of the alternative associated with the most preferred outcome.
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Rapoport, A. (1998). Optimization. In: Decision Theory and Decision Behaviour. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230377769_3
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