Incommensurability and consistency.
Public-policy choices frequently have to be carried out in the presence of incommensurabilities. These incommensurabilities may manifest themselves in the form of incompleteness—that is, some of the options under consideration are not comparable by a decision maker. As a consequence, it may be impos...
| Publicado en: | Philosophical Studies Vol. 181; no. 12; pp. 3235 - 3252 |
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