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  2. Pascal's wager - Wikipedia

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    In fact, according to decision theory, the only value that matters in the above matrix is the +∞ (infinitely positive). Any matrix of the following type (where f 1 , f 2 , and f 3 are all negative or finite positive numbers) results in (B) as being the only rational decision.

  3. Uncertainty management theory - Wikipedia

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    University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Uncertainty Management Theory (UMT) was developed by Dale Brashers, an associate professor of Speech Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. [2] Brashers died in 2010 after spending more than 20 years researching uncertainty management. [3]

  4. Instrumental and value rationality - Wikipedia

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    An "instrumental rationalist" is a decision expert whose response to seeing a man engaged in slicing his toes [the man’s value rational fact-free end] with a blunt knife [the man’s instrumental value-free means] is to rush to advise him that he should use a sharper knife to better serve [instrumentally] his evident [value rational] objective.

  5. List of presidents of the University of Illinois System

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    The president of the University of Illinois System, a system of public universities in Illinois, is the chief executive officer and a member of the faculty of each of its colleges, schools, institutes, and divisions. [3] The president is elected by the University of Illinois Board of Trustees and is responsible to them for the operation of the ...

  6. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign - Wikipedia

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    University Hall stood from 1871 until 1938 and was replaced by Gregory Hall and the Illini Union.Pieces were used in the erection of Hallene Gateway. [21]The University of Illinois, originally named "Illinois Industrial University", was one of the 37 universities created under the first Morrill Land-Grant Act, which provided public land for the creation of agricultural and industrial colleges ...

  7. AP Decision Notes: What to expect in the Illinois ... - AOL

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    There are 147 pledged Democratic delegates at stake in Illinois. Thirty-two at-large delegates are allocated in proportion to the statewide vote, as are 19 PLEO delegates, or “party leaders and ...

  8. University of Illinois System - Wikipedia

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    The Urbana-Champaign campus was founded in 1867 as the Illinois Industrial University. It was one of the 37 public land-grant institutions created shortly after Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862. [8] The university changed its name to University of Illinois in 1885, and then again to University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1982.

  9. University of Illinois College of Law - Wikipedia

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    The University of Illinois College of Law (Illinois Law or UIUC Law) is the law school of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, a public land-grant research university in Champaign and Urbana, Illinois. It was established in 1897 and offers the Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, and Doctor of Juridical Science degrees.