Roots and Consequences of Vagueness

Ackerman, Felicia

doi:10.2307/2214167

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“…See Qizilbash () and Wasserman (). Similar claims about similar arguments have been made by Ackerman (), Danielsson (), Arrhenius and Rabinowicz (), and Voorhoeve and Binmore ().…”

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The Good, the Bad, and the Transitivity of *Better Than**

Nebel

2017

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The Rachels-Temkin spectrum arguments against the transitivity of better than involve good or bad experiences, lives, or outcomes that vary along multiple dimensions-e.g., duration and intensity of pleasure or pain. This paper presents variations on these arguments involving combinations of good and bad experiences, which have even more radical implications than the violation of transitivity. These variations force opponents of transitivity to conclude that something good is worse than something that isn't good, on pain of rejecting the good altogether. That is impossible, so we must reject the spectrum arguments. According toThe Transitivity of Better Than: For any bearers of value A, B, and C, if A is better than B, all things considered, and B is better than C, all things considered, then A is better than C, all things considered.

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“…See Qizilbash () and Wasserman (). Similar claims about similar arguments have been made by Ackerman (), Danielsson (), Arrhenius and Rabinowicz (), and Voorhoeve and Binmore ().…”

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The Good, the Bad, and the Transitivity of *Better Than**

Nebel

2017

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“…11 10 Chichilnisky actually proved this result for a slightly stronger condition than non-dictatorship, but this detail doesn't effect the analysis to follow. 11 For other discussions on the relation between Sorites-type vagueness and social choice theory, see Katz 2011;Ackerman 1994. For a discussion of vagueness that uses Arrow's results in a different way, see van Rooij 2011.…”

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Avoiding predicate whiplash: social choice theory and linguistic vagueness

Grinsell

2012

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“…Chichilnisky actually proved this result for a slightly stronger condition than non-dictatorship, but this detail doesn't effect the analysis to follow. 11 For other discussions on the relation between Sorites-type vagueness and social choice theory, seeKatz 2011;Ackerman 1994. For a discussion of vagueness that uses Arrow's results in a different way, see van Rooij 2011.…”

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