Decision-Making Act

A Decision-Making Act is a task act of a decision making task (to select a course of action).

• AKA: Decisioning Act.
• Context:
  • It can range from being a Human Decision-Making Act to being a Non-Human Decision Making Act (non-human animal decision-making act or mechanical-agent decision-making act).
  • It can range from being a Correct Decision-Making Act to being an Incorrect Decision-Making Act.
  • It can range from being an Good Decisionining Act to being an Ineffective Decisionining Act to being a Bad Decisioning Act (such as a ruinous decision).
  • It can range from being a Consequential Decision-Making Act (such as a life-defining act) to being an Inconsequential Decision-Making Act.
  • It can range from being an Simple Decisioning Act (such as affirmative/negative) to being a Complex Decisioning Act.
  • It can range from being a Rational Decisioning Act to being an Irrational Decisioning Act.
  • It can range from being a Deterministic Decisionining Act to being a Probabilistic Decisioning Act.
  • It can range (in social settings) from being an Ambiguous Decisioning Act to being an Unambiguous Decisioning Act.
  • It can range from being a Voluntary Decisioning Act to being an Involuntary Decisioning Act.
  • It can range from being a Personal Decisioning Act to being an Organizational Decisioning Act.
  • It can be supported by a Judgement, such as based on advice.
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• Example(s):
  • an Agent Decision Act, such as the player move: At timestamp T, X's Mth move was to move P from S to F..
  • a Recognition Act, such as At timestamp T, X's Mth move was to move P from S to F..
  • a Data-Driven Decision-Making Act.
  • a Legal Decision.
  • a Signed Contract.
  • a Management Decision-Making Act.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Mechanized Decision.
  • an Analysis Act.
  • an Advising Task.
• See: Conclusion, Selection Act, Decision Function, Decision Process, Indecision.

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References

2020

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/decision#Noun
  1. The act of deciding.
  2. A choice or judgement.
     • “The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation."

     It is the decision of the court that movies are protected as free speech.}}

     It's a tough decision, but I'll take vanilla.}}

  3. Template:Uncountable Firmness of conviction.

     After agonizing deliberations, they finally proceeded with decision.}}

  4. Template:Chiefly combat sports A result arrived at by the judges when there is no clear winner at the end of the contest.

     He has won twice by knockout, once by decision.}}

  5. Template:Baseball A win or a loss awarded to a pitcher.

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