"Why don't we just use cool, clear, faultless reasoning to prove we are right? The answer is that we rarely need to know that anything is aboslutely wrong or right; instead, we only want to choose the best of some alternatives."
Minsky suggests two strategies for such a choice. In strength from magnitude, we look at cooperative or competetive sums of forces (sum of the evidence? In strength from multitude, we count the number of reasons in favour of a decision. For both of these strategies, "strength" is a measure of how likely a decision is to succeed. Question: How are these two strategies related to what we know about people's decision-making heuristics?
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