Conicting Reasons in the Small-Improvement Argument
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The small-improvement argument is usually considered themost powerful argument against comparability, viz the view that for any two alternatives an agent is rationally required either to prefer one of the alternatives to the other or to be indierent between them. We argue that while there might be reasons to believe each of the premises in the small-improvement argument, there is a conict between these reasons. As a result, the reasons do not provide support for believing the conjunction of the premises. Without support for the conjunction of the premises, the smallimprovement argument for incomparability fails.
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