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Beyond rationality : the search for wisdom in a troubled time

With Beyond Rationality, Kenneth R. Hammond, one of the most respected and experienced experts in judgment and decision-making, sums up his life's work and persuasively argues that decisions should be based on balance and pragmatism rather than rigid ideologies. Hammond has long focused on the dichotomy between theories of correspondence, whereby arguments correspond with reality, and coherence, whereby arguments strive to be internally consistent. He has persistently proposed a middle approach that draws from both of these modes of thought and so avoids the blunders of either extreme. In this
eBook, English, 2007
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007
Judgment
1 online resource (xxiv, 338 pages) : illustrations
9780195345506, 9780195311747, 9781429468961, 9786610965823, 9781280965821, 0195345509, 0195311744, 1429468963, 661096582X, 1280965827
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Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010
English