TY - JOUR
T1 - Incommensurability or Vagueness?
T2 - A Comment on Rabinowicz and Sugden
AU - Qizilbash, Mozaffar Ali Khan
PY - 2012/12/27
Y1 - 2012/12/27
N2 - Items are incommensurate if it is false that one is better than the other or that they are exactly as or equally good. John Broome claims that there are no incommensurate items (in some domain), but that there is vagueness. Wlodek Rabinowicz casts doubt on this claim because he rejects a principle which Broome adopts in advancing it. I argue that Robert Sugden's discussion can be interpreted as advancing a version of this claim which does not depend on the relevant principle and which can respond to certain objections.
AB - Items are incommensurate if it is false that one is better than the other or that they are exactly as or equally good. John Broome claims that there are no incommensurate items (in some domain), but that there is vagueness. Wlodek Rabinowicz casts doubt on this claim because he rejects a principle which Broome adopts in advancing it. I argue that Robert Sugden's discussion can be interpreted as advancing a version of this claim which does not depend on the relevant principle and which can respond to certain objections.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84871733334&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-9264.2012.00338.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-9264.2012.00338.x
M3 - Article
SN - 0066-7374
VL - 112
SP - 333
EP - 338
JO - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
JF - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
IS - 3
ER -