Classifying comparability problems in a way that matters
(2022) In Synthese 200(4).- Abstract
How should one understand comparisons in which neither of two alternatives is at least as good as the other? Much recent literature on comparability problems focuses on what the appropriate explanation of the phenomenon is. Is it due to vagueness or the possibility of non-conventional comparative relations such as parity? This paper argues that the discussions on how to best explain comparability problems has reached an impasse at which it is hard to make any progress. To advance the discussion we suggest a new classification of comparability problems that focuses on the problems they cause for practical reasoning.
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- author
- Andersson, Henrik LU and Herlitz, Anders LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2022
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Comparisons, Decision theory, Hard choices, incommensurability, Incomparability, Value theory
- in
- Synthese
- volume
- 200
- issue
- 4
- article number
- 322
- publisher
- Springer
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85135172855
- ISSN
- 0039-7857
- DOI
- 10.1007/s11229-022-03795-8
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
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- 09a955a5-6bcb-4a70-9958-49d0c2d66f3a
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- 2022-09-09 11:51:18
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keywords = {{Comparisons; Decision theory; Hard choices; incommensurability; Incomparability; Value theory}},
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title = {{Classifying comparability problems in a way that matters}},
url = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11229-022-03795-8}},
doi = {{10.1007/s11229-022-03795-8}},
volume = {{200}},
year = {{2022}},
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