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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 10 April 2013 03:58:04AM 1 point [-]

My best guess is that you mean the Von Neumann Morgenstern utility theorem but got the letters wrong.

Oops. Fixed.

If you are referring to those axioms then you could also consider saying VNM-utility instead of VNM-utilitarianism. Because those words have meanings that are far more different than their etymology might suggest to you.

That's why I talk about "VNM-utilitarianism" rather than simply "utilitarianism".

Comment author: nshepperd 10 April 2013 05:39:12AM 2 points [-]

I believe "VNM-utilitarianism" is problematic because it would suggest that it is a kind of utilitarianism. By the most usual definition of "utilitarianism" (a moral theory involving an 'objective' aggregative measure of value + utility-maximising decision theory) it is not.

However, I remember "VNM-rational" and "VNM-rationality" being accepted terminology.

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