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This paper argues that for various behavioral and ethical reasons decision analysis does not, and in some cases, cannot, treat all the considerations that enter a human decision. Those considerations that cannot be treated are holistic in nature, and do not allow the decomposition (‘divide and conquer’)([5] p. 271) which makes decision analysis, and in fact all formal analysis, possible.
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Dreyfus, H.L., Dreyfus, S.E. (1978). Inadequacies in the Decision Analysis Model of Rationality. In: Hooker, C.A., Leach, J.J., >McClennen, E.F. (eds) Foundations and Applications of Decision Theory. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, vol 13a. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9789-9_4
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