Satisficing, as defined by Simon, can be applied to library and information science where researchers assess how much information is adequate to meet their information need.

Satisficing is often a good option when making a decision, but it can also be detrimental if used the wrong way.

Satisficing also occurs in consensus building when the group looks towards a solution everyone can agree on even if it may not be the best.

Satisficing, a portmanteau " combining satisfy with suffice ", is a decision-making strategy that attempts to meet an acceptability threshold.

Satisficing claims that the first needle that can sew on the patch is the one that should be used.

* Satisficing: examining alternatives only until an acceptable one is found.

" Satisficing " can also be regarded as combining " satisfying " and " sacrificing.

Satisficing and Optimality.

* Consequentialism ( Teleology ) argues that the morality of an action is contingent on the action's outcome or result.

Consequentialism is the class of normative ethical theories holding that the consequences of one's conduct are the ultimate basis for any judgment about the rightness of that conduct.

Consequentialism refers to moral theories that hold that the consequences of a particular action form the basis for any valid moral judgment about that action ( or create a structure for judgment, see rule consequentialism ).

* Consequentialism: Some advocates base the non-aggression principle on rule utilitarianism or rule egoism.

Consequentialism is sometimes confused with utilitarianism, but utilitarianism is only one member of a broad family of consequentialist theories.

* Consequentialism: Some advocates base the non-aggression principle on rule utilitarianism or rule egoism.

* Consequentialism, a theory in philosophy in which the morality of an act is determined by its effects

Here, the relevant question is whether the action is moral or not, but more broadly whether a moral theory is correct that says morality is determined solely by an action's consequences ( See Consequentialism ).

Consequentialism can also be contrasted with aretaic moral theories such as virtue ethics.

Consequentialism is usually distinguished from deontological ethics ( or deontology ), in that deontology derives the rightness or wrongness of one's conduct from the character of the behaviour itself rather than the outcomes of the conduct.

The result is a hybrid ethical theory of the kind defended by Nagel's Princeton PhD student Samuel Scheffler in The Rejection of Consequentialism.

More broadly, utilitarian theories are examples of Consequentialism.

* Common-Sense Morality and Consequentialism ( 1985 ), Routledge and Kegan Paul.

* ( 1991 ) " Decision-theoretic Consequentialism and the Nearest and Dearest Objection ", Ethics, 101, 3, pp. 461-482.

* Roger Crisp and Michael Slote have edited a collection of important essays titled Virtue Ethics

In the 2007 book The Ethics of Care and Empathy, philosopher Michael Slote introduces a theory of care-based ethics that is grounded in empathy.

Michael Slote is UST Professor of Ethics at the University of Miami and is author of From Morality to Virtue ( 1992 ) and Morals From Motives ( 2001 ).

American philosopher Michael Martin argues that it is not necessarily true that objective moral truths must entail the existence of God, suggesting that there could be alternative explanations: he argues that naturalism may be an acceptable explanation and, even if a supernatural explanation is necessary, it does not have to be God ( polytheism is a viable alternative ).

Michael Meyer argues that the play's theme is not women's rights, but rather " the need of every individual to find out the kind of person he or she really is and to strive to become that person.

Ecologist Robert Michael Pyle argues that most cultures have human-like giants in their folk history: " We have this need for some larger-than-life creature.

" Clay Witt, a minister in the Metropolitan Community Church, explains how theologians and commentators like John Shelby Spong, George Edwards and Michael England interpret injunctions against certain sexual acts as being originally intended as a means of distinguishing religious worship between Abrahamic and the surrounding pagan faiths, within which homosexual acts featured as part of idolatrous religious practices: " England argues that these prohibitions should be seen as being directed against sexual practices of fertility cult worship.

In Personal Knowledge, Michael Polanyi argues for the epistemological relevance of knowledge how and knowledge that ; using the example of the act of balance involved in riding a bicycle, he suggests that the theoretical knowledge of the physics involved in maintaining a state of balance cannot substitute for the practical knowledge of how to ride, and that it is important to understand how both are established and grounded.

However Michael Wilcock, formally of Trinity College, Bristol, argues that Elijah's letter: ' does address a very ' northern ' situation in the southern kingdom ', and thus is authentic.

* Michael Halliday's systemic functional grammar argues that the explanation of how language works " needed to be grounded in a functional analysis, since language had evolved in the process of carrying out certain critical functions as human beings interacted with their ... ' eco-social ' environment ".

Michael Novak, a specialist in the religious beliefs of the Founding Fathers, argues that the promotion of multiculturalism, moral relativism, and secularism among academics results in academic censorship that affects information and analysis supporting the Judeo-Christian heritage.

Michael Stohl argues, " The use of terror tactics is common in international relations and the state has been and remains a more likely employer of terrorism within the international system than insurgents.

Michael Bayles argues that if a person violates a law in order to create a test case as to the constitutionality of a law, and then wins his case, then that act did not constitute civil disobedience.

Michael Mousseau argues that in this kind of socio-economy conflict is always present, latent or overt, because individuals depend on their groups for physical and economic security and are thus loyal to their groups rather than their states, and because groups are in a constant state of conflict over access to state coffers.

E. Michael Jones in Degenerate Moderns argues that Stanley Fish was influenced by his adulterous affairs to reject classic literature that condemned adultery.

Michael Kaminski argues in his book that it is unlikely that the plot point had ever seriously been considered or even conceived of before 1978, and that the first film was clearly operating under an alternate storyline where Vader was a separate character from Luke's father ; there is not a single reference to this plot point before 1978 ( further reinforcing this is Obi-Wan Kenobi calling Vader " Darth ", as if it is his true name rather than his new Sith name ).

Historian Michael Morrison argues that from 1820 to 1846 a combination of " racism and veneration of the Union " had prevented a direct northern attack on slavery.

Michael Hattaway offers an alternate, sympathetic view of Joan which argues that the character's movement from saintly to demonic is justified within the text: " Joan is the play's tragic figure, comparable with Faulconbridge in King John.

Michael Taylor, for example, argues, " A fiendish provenance replaces a divine one in 5, Scene 5, a scene that reduces Joan to a comic, bathetic dependency on shifty representatives of the underworld.

Likewise, Michael Hattaway, in both his 1990 New Cambridge Shakespeare edition of 1 Henry VI and his 1991 edition of 2 Henry VI argues that the evidence suggests 1 Henry VI was written first.

For example, Michael Taylor argues that there were at least thirty-nine history plays prior to 1592, including the two-part Christopher Marlowe play Tamburlaine ( 1587 ), Thomas Lodge's The Wounds of Civil War ( 1588 ), the anonymous The Troublesome Reign of King John ( 1588 ), Edmund Ironside ( 1590 – also anonymous ), Robert Green's Selimus ( 1591 ) and another anonymous play, The True Tragedy of Richard III ( 1591 ).

Along similar lines, Michael F. Brown argues that the Aguaruna of Peru see magic as merely a type of technology, no more supernatural than their physical tools.

In Significance, economist Michael Spagat argues that the ICMMS survey, the only one ( of four ) international sanctions surveys ( graphed in his paper ) to show a dramatic increase in child mortality, is suspect because of the abusive, manipulative nature of the Iraqi regime.

Additionally, well-situated clusters, which Michael Porter argues is vital in global economies, connect locally with linked industries, manufacturers, and other entities that are related by skills, technologies, and other common inputs.

Michael Austin draws attention to an objection from autonomy, which argues that morality requires an agent to freely choose which principles they live by.

This sentiment is reflected in Michael Sorkin ’ s and Mike Davis ’ declaration of “ the end of public space ” and the “ destruction of any truly democratic urban spaces .” Another side of the debate, however, argues that it is people who apply meaning to public space, wherever it may be.