Spectrum Arguments, Parity and Persistency

Abstract

This article shows that introducing the positive comparative relation parity only helps one block so‐called “Spectrum Arguments” in order to avoid their unsavoury implications if one specifies parity in a specific way with respect to its persistence. The article illustrates how parity must both admit of persistency and be weakly non‐persistent for parity to block Spectrum Arguments, and identifies some consequences of that discovery for the general debate on Spectrum Arguments, value theory and comparability problems.

Seeming incomparability and rational choice

“…present discussion. For a general discussion of the ways in which seeming incomparability may or may not persist though, see Herlitz (2020). 4.…”

“… 3. There is a third feature regarding the persistence of seeming incomparability that I take to be central to this phenomenon, but it is not included here since that feature does not bear on our present discussion. For a general discussion of the ways in which seeming incomparability may or may not persist though, see Herlitz (2020).…”