Wikipedia on satisficing: Satisficing (a portmanteau of satisfy and suffice) is a decision-making strategy that attempts to meet criteria for adequacy, rather than to identify an optimal solution. A satisficing strategy may often be (near) optimal if the costs of the decision-making process itself, such as the cost of obtaining complete information, are considered in the [...]
My friend Thomas posted a status message to Facebook “wonders why Republicans hate America?”. This is where I’m at: Define your terms! :-) By “America” do you mean? a pluralist society striving for a more representative government and greater civil liberties a consensus society seeking a return to a more stable civic life built upon firm social [...]
viz. — namely, as follows, that is to say; introduces and element or list… an abbreviation for “videlicet” vis-a-vis — (1) face to face with another (2) In relation to or compared with: Canada’s role vis-a-vis the United States in Afghanistan (3) as opposed to
