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  2. Instrumental and value rationality - Wikipedia

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    Philosopher Robert Nozick accepted the reality of Weber's two kinds of rationality. He believed that conditional means are capable of achieving unconditional ends. He did not search traditional philosophies for value rational propositions about justice, as Rawls had done, because he accepted well-established utilitarian propositions, which Rawls found unacceptable.

  3. Meritocracy - Wikipedia

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    Meritocracy (merit, from Latin mereō, and -cracy, from Ancient Greek κράτος kratos 'strength, power') is the notion of a political system in which economic goods or political power are vested in individual people based on ability and talent, rather than wealth or social class. [1]

  4. Best practice - Wikipedia

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    Best practice is a feature of accredited management standards such as ISO 9000 and ISO 14001. [2] Some consulting firms specialize in the area of best practice and offer ready-made templates to standardize business process documentation. Sometimes a best practice is not applicable or is inappropriate for a particular organization's needs.

  5. List of philosophical concepts - Wikipedia

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    Principle; Principle of double effect; Private language argument; Problem of induction; Problem of mental causation; Problem of other minds; Prohairesis; Property (ownership) Property (characteristic) Proposition; Propositional attitude; Propositional calculus

  6. Principle - Wikipedia

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    The principle states that every event has a rational explanation. [9] The principle has a variety of expressions, all of which are perhaps best summarized by the following: For every entity x, if x exists, then there is a sufficient explanation for why x exists. For every event e, if e occurs, then there is a sufficient explanation for why e ...

  7. Decision-making - Wikipedia

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    Sample flowchart representing a decision process when confronted with a lamp that fails to light. In psychology, decision-making (also spelled decision making and decisionmaking) is regarded as the cognitive process resulting in the selection of a belief or a course of action among several possible alternative options.

  8. Preference (economics) - Wikipedia

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    A simple example of a preference order over three goods, in which orange is preferred to a banana, but an apple is preferred to an orange. In economics, and in other social sciences, preference refers to an order by which an agent, while in search of an "optimal choice", ranks alternatives based on their respective utility.

  9. Interdependence theory - Wikipedia

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    In order to best analyze this factor, Interdependence theory presents a taxonomy of situations that includes the six dimensions listed below. A key concept with the Principle of Structure is Affordance, or what the situation affords (makes possible) for the individuals within the interaction. [1] [2] Six dimensions of structure: