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  1. The Logics of Preference: A Study of Prohairetic Logics in Twentieth Century Philosophy.N. J. Moutafakis - 1987 - Dordrecht, Netherland: Springer.
    With characteristic incisiveness Georg Henrik von Wright identifies pro­ haireticIogic (i. e. the logic of preference) as the core of a general theory of value concepts. Essentially, this nucleus involves the logical study of acts from the point of view of their preferability. 1 (italics added) Though the term prohairesis is found in Plato, as well as in Aristotle's treatment of the relations of preference, it is von Wright who introduces this word into contemporary analytical philoso­ phy, and succinctly specifies (...)
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