Trading Quality for Quantity*
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چکیده
1. Some philosophical problems are decidedly esoteric. It might be thought that certain counterexamples Larry Temkin and Stuart Rachels have offered to the transitivity of the better-than relation are prime instances. For the most compelling of these putative counterexamples rely on our evaluative judgments concerning the quality of hypothetical lives that last an incredibly long time. And if the phenomena the counterexamples purport to uncover emerge only when we evaluate lives that last, say, 1050 years, it might seem that, for all practical purposes, they are phenomena that could safely be ignored.1
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