Decision-Making

Roles: agent, option, constraint, risk, trade-off, outcome, dilemma

The process of choosing among alternatives under conditions of uncertainty, constraint, or competing values. As a target domain, decision-making absorbs metaphors from navigation (crossroads, at a fork), warfare (strategy, tactical retreat), gambling (hedging bets, doubling down), and mythology (Scylla and Charybdis, Hobson’s choice). The frame emphasizes the agent who must choose, the options available, the constraints that limit them, and the consequences that follow.

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