The small-improvement argument rescued
Philosophical Quarterly 61 (242):171-174 (2011)
| Abstract | Gustafsson and Espinoza have recently argued that the ‘small-improvement argument’, against completeness as a rationality requirement for preference orderings, is defective. They claim that the two main premises of the argument conflict, and hence should not both be accepted. I show that this conflict can be avoided by modifying one of the premises | |||||||||
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