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--- abstract: 'This is a short article to examine the following possibility: that a single agent might simultaneously have different utilities that are incommensurable. Some arguments aginst this possiblity are considered and rejected. Two practical examples are given and its implications in terms of goal change and learning are discussed.' altloc: - http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/cpmrep27.html chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Edmonds given: Bruce honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1997-09 date_type: published datestamp: 1998-08-07 department: Centre for Policy Modelling dir: disk0/00/00/03/59 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 359 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_postscript.png;/359/1/incutilA4.ps|/style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/359/5/incutil.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: Manchester Metropolitan University isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'utility, incomeasurability, learning, goals, philosophy' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:51 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: FALSE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: FALSE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: CPM-97-27 rev_number: 14 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:26:57 subjects: - comp-sci-art-intel - phil-dec-theory succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: The Possible Incommensurability of Utilities and the Learning of Goals type: techreport userid: 192 volume: ~