Tangential—in that this is going to do absolutely zero more to justify the completeness assumption than anything else you’ve read—but this seems like a good place to point out that utility functions can also be grounded in (and IMO, are better grounded in) Savage’s theorem, in addition to the VNM theorem.
Tangential—in that this is going to do absolutely zero more to justify the completeness assumption than anything else you’ve read—but this seems like a good place to point out that utility functions can also be grounded in (and IMO, are better grounded in) Savage’s theorem, in addition to the VNM theorem.