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- Title
Intuitions about large number cases.
- Authors
Pummer, Theron
- Abstract
Is there some large number of very mild hangnail pains, each experienced by a separate person, which would be worse than two years of excruciating torture, experienced by a single person? Many people have the intuition that the answer to this question is No. However, a host of philosophers have argued that, because we have no intuitive grasp of very large numbers, we should not trust such intuitions. I argue that there is decent intuitive support for the No answer, which does not depend on our intuitively grasping or imagining very large numbers.
- Subjects
INTUITION; PAIN perception; TORTURE; PHILOSOPHERS; ACQUISITIVENESS; IMAGINATION
- Publication
Analysis, 2013, Vol 73, Issue 1, p37
- ISSN
0003-2638
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/analys/ans134