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Erik Carlson Broome's argument against value incomparability article John Broome has argued that alleged cases of value incomparability are really examples of vagueness in the betterness relation. The main premiss of his argument is ’the collapsing principle’. I argue that this principle is dubious, and that Broome’s argument is therefore unconvincing.

Broome's argument against value incomparability

Erik Carlson

Utilitas, vol. 16, no. 2, 2004, pp. 220–224

Abstract

John Broome has argued that alleged cases of value incomparability are really examples of vagueness in the betterness relation. The main premiss of his argument is ’the collapsing principle’. I argue that this principle is dubious, and that Broome’s argument is therefore unconvincing.

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