According to Savage ''a state of the world is a description of the wor
ld, leaving no relevant aspect undescribed''. This paper presents an a
nalysis of decision situations in which the decision maker feels he ma
y be unaware of some aspects which are relevant for the determination
of the consequences of his actions, and therefore does not think that
the model on which his decision is based is a faithful representation
of reality. In the present interpretation, in such situations the deci
sion maker need not believe that all actions which are perceived as re
sulting with certainty in one consequence will necessarily do so. Henc
e the decision maker contemplating such an action - represented in the
model by a constant map from the state space into the consequence spa
ce - will not necessarily rank it as indifferent to the corresponding
consequence itself. A representation result is presented in which the
decision maker evaluates actions not directly through the maps which r
epresent them but through maps corrected by bringing extreme consequen
ces closer to a central one. The latter reflects a first-approximation
evaluation of the set of competing alternatives available in the give
n decision situation.