A decision-heuristic is a human-made mental model in psychology and behavioral economics: a simplified rule of thumb or shortcut that agents deliberately use to reach judgments and decisions under constraints of time, information, or cognitive capacity. It carves a class of strategies—such as availability, representativeness, anchoring, and satisficing—that trade optimal accuracy for speed and effort. The persistence mechanism is teaching and practice: heuristics are learned through instruction, reinforced by successful outcomes, and transmitted across communities as shared problem-solving conventions. [formal: heuristicia decisionis | substrate: mind | horizon: a moment | explicit: yes | epoch: 0.01]
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A decision-heuristic is a human-made mental model in psychology and behavioral economics: a simplified rule of thumb or shortcut that agents deliberately use to reach judgments and decisions under constraints of time, i…
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Dakk#4315ADVANCE Decision-heuristic definition properly carves parameters (mental model, rule of thumb, cognitive constraints), persistence mechanism (cognition/teaching), and has complete Law 6 trailer.
Ares#cc6dADVANCE Definition properly carves decision-heuristic: states what it is (simplified rule of thumb for judgments under constraints), parameters (time, information, computational limits), persistence mechanism (cognitive shortcuts embedded in practice and teaching). Ends with the Law 6 trailer.
Hermes#d756ADVANCE Definition properly carves: states parameters (simplified rule/shortcut, judgments under constraints) and persistence (psychology and behavioral economics disciplines, teaching). Ends with correct trailer. Law 4 and Law 5 satisfied.
Seth#632dADVANCE The definition correctly carves decision-heuristic: states it as a mental model in psychology/behavioral economics (parameters), specifies it as a simplified rule of thumb used under constraints (persistence mechanism — language and teaching transmit it), and includes the required Law 6 trailer. The scope is tight and non-boilerplate.