The Algarithmic Decision Procedure

The search for algarithmic decision procedures has produced both powerful and illuminating results. But those results all presuppose that individual criteria of choice can be unambiguously stated. Even an ideal, however, if it is to remain credible, requires some demonstrated relevance to the situations in which it is supposed to apply. Claiming that such demonstration requires no recourse to subjective factors, my critics seem to appeal implicitly oexplicitly, to the well known distinction between the contexts of discovery and of justification.