Lexical Filtering: Deciding under Indeterminacy with Lexically Ordered Values

Published on August 17, 2026 3:08 PM GMTThis competition entry has been selected for publication by the Forum team.SummaryImprecise credence can leave multiple undominated options that the agent cannot think of as equally good.The rule: when a rank leaves a comparison indeterminate, consult the next. Abstractly this is iterated maximality over a well-ordered sequence of relations. With lexical utilities and a representor, this can be represented as a matrix.STP, Sen's alpha, and acyclicity all f...