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    Any adequate theory of value must postulate some ultimate... — Carmelics
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    Any adequate theory of value must postulate some ultimate end outside of practice as a standard against which the value of acts as means can be judged.

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    • 1.To judge the value of acts as means, there must be a standard against which those acts are measured.
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    • 2.If no ultimate end outside of practice is postulated, evaluating means requires appeal to further means, generating an infinite regress.
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    • 3.An infinite regress of means-evaluation is not a viable foundation for a theory of value.
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    • 1.Dewey's instrumentalism holds that ends are themselves evaluated as means to further ends, making 'ends-in-view' provisional rather than ultimate.
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    • 2.A coherentist standard of value—where acts are judged by their systemic consequences within ongoing experience—avoids regress without positing a fixed external end.
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    • 3.The regress argument falsely assumes evaluation must terminate in a single fixed point rather than in a self-correcting, experiential feedback loop.
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    • 1.Aristotelian phronesis demonstrates that practical wisdom adjudicates value contextually without appealing to a single ultimate end outside practice itself.
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    • 2.The demand for an external ultimate standard conflates the logical structure of justification with the actual deliberative structure of moral reasoning.
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    The standard objection to Dewey’s instrumental theory of value judgments is that it concerns the value of things as means only, and not as ends. It fails to fix on what is ultimately important: intrinsic values or final ends. Some ultimate end outside of practice must be postulated as given, as the standard against which the value of acts as means can be judged, lest we fall into an infinite regress. We either need some conception of a summum bonum, justified apart from practical reasoning, tow
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