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As mentioned above, additivity is a property of cardinal utility functions. An analogous property of
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Brandt, Felix; Conitzer, Vincent; Endriss, Ulle; Lang, Jérôme; Procaccia, Ariel D. (2016).
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be a finite set of items. A cardinal utility function
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