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Psychological introspection shows that in a more or less conscious manner each individual proceeds mentally through equivalences between successive increases in its consumption. Thus one admits generally that drinking the fourth glass of wine gives a pleasure of less magnitude than the first.
Mathematics have no symbols for confused ideas. -Henri Poincaré
Extracts from Chapter II of Maurice Allais, A la Recherche d’une Discipline Economique (To the Search for an Economic Discipline, Paris, 1943); republished as Traité d’Economie Pure (Treatise on Pure Economics) 1952; third edition, as Traité d’Economie Pure, Editions Clément Juglar, Paris, 1992.
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Allais, M. (1994). Absolute Satisfaction. In: Allais, M., Hagen, O. (eds) Cardinalism. Theory and Decision Library, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0888-1_1
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