Vagueness, Incomparability, and the Collapsing Principle

John Broome has argued that incomparability and vagueness cannot coexist in a given betterness order. His argument essentially hinges on an assumption he calls the ‘collapsing principle’. In an earlier article I criticized this principle, but Broome has recently expressed doubts about the cogency of...

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Main Author: Carlson, Erik (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2013
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2013, Volume: 16, Issue: 3, Pages: 449-463
Further subjects:B Incomparability
B Cristian Constantinescu
B Value comparisons
B Vagueness
B “Better than”
B John Broome
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