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The Rationality Debate
The axiomatic view, as I understand it, basically says that there are certain things that should be true about the way they make decisions. And then we want to measure human rationality against this sort of axiomatic system. So what you described is the axiom of transitivity. We cannot really ever say whether an organism or agent maximizes utility because you would have to know so much about the goals and constraints.