And ‘alternative’ should be used for any number of choices, provided they’re mutually exclusive. I must, however, take issue with your usage of ‘terrorist’.
And ‘alternative’ should be used for any number of choices, provided they’re mutually exclusive.
For maximum pedanticness, an alternative is one of two or more time-identical, agent-identical actions or sets of actions that the agent in question is able to perform. An alternative set is the complete list of all alternatives available to a given agent for a given span of time.
Agreed. Tentatively renamed.
And ‘alternative’ should be used for any number of choices, provided they’re mutually exclusive. I must, however, take issue with your usage of ‘terrorist’.
For maximum pedanticness, an alternative is one of two or more time-identical, agent-identical actions or sets of actions that the agent in question is able to perform. An alternative set is the complete list of all alternatives available to a given agent for a given span of time.
Btw, weren’t you going to quote me on Allais-type paradoxes? :-(
Terrorist remark rewritten ;-)