decision
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Decision The act of making a choice or arriving at a solution – an action taken with the intention (usually) of producing a favourable outcome.
A decision is said to be successful if it brings about an outcome at least as satisfactory as would have been yielded by any other course the decision-maker might have pursued, otherwise the decision fails. (see also: judgement, decision-making, attitude, decision analysis, decision-making under uncertainty, counterfactual reasoning, statistical decision-making, Decisions – some questions probing ethical dimensions of)
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