Too many options: how to set criteria for a choice

Criteria help when tied to a stated task. Separate necessary limits from preferences, preserve unknowns and avoid scoring the same fact repeatedly.

Questions explored

Key distinctions

Keeney's read abstract distinguishes forming proposals, assessing them and selecting among them; no detailed procedure follows from it. (Ralph L. Keeney; limited actual read scope)

Necessary conditions do not disappear into a total; the filter concerns Ilya's task, rather than a universal hierarchy of values. (United Wisdom; fictional scene, no empirical verification claim)

Keep unknowns separate and ask a question that could change selection. The trial is voluntary and guarantees no suitable experience. (United Wisdom; untested limited proposal)

Limits of interpretation

• Selected primary contexts only; full works not claimed read.
• Fictional scenes and optional trials are original reasoning, not empirical treatment or universal algorithms.
• Do not infer all-world source rights, personal motives, safety, consent or duty from this article.
• Raw primary text import and vectorization are not authorized.

Sources

• Creativity in MS/OR: Value-Focused Thinking—Creativity Directed toward Decision Making — Ralph L. Keeney

  Complete publisher abstract and edition metadata actually read through web extracted lines158–160/186–194. Full6-page article NOT_READ. University-hosted scan opened but no usable text/images delivered; not claimed inspected.

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• A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice — Herbert A. Simon

  Selected primary introduction and stated conceptual distinctions actually read; whole article and proofs NOT_READ.

  Source use: FULL_REPRODUCTION_NOT_AUTHORIZED_BOUNDED_PARAPHRASE_ONLY