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- Title
Spectrum arguments and hypersensitivity.
- Authors
Pummer, Theron
- Abstract
Larry Temkin famously argues that what he calls spectrum arguments yield strong reason to reject Transitivity, according to which the ‘all-things-considered better than’ relation is transitive. Spectrum arguments do reveal that the conjunctions of independently plausible claims are inconsistent with Transitivity. But I argue that there is very strong independent reason to reject such conjunctions of claims, and thus that the fact that they are inconsistent with Transitivity does not yield strong reason to reject Transitivity.
- Subjects
ARGUMENT; THEORY of knowledge; PERSUASION (Rhetoric); REASONING; REASON
- Publication
Philosophical Studies, 2018, Vol 175, Issue 7, p1729
- ISSN
0031-8116
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11098-017-0932-3