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S E4: Core Principle 3 - The Marginal Principle - Just One More?

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Should I Marry My Current Partner?

The big idea is to replace a difficult how many questions with a series of should i do one more questions. For people who want to start a family, they often ask themselves, how many children should we have? A better question is, should we have one more child? How about this one? Should i marry my current partner? A cate, so this isn't a question about how many or how much. This is what call an either or question. And so it can't be further simplified. There are questions which aren't about quantities, you know, that aren't about the how much or the how many, but are either or questions. S when samir goes from asking

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