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    Supports→We cannot exorcise the paradoxes of population ethics by giving up the transitivity of 'better than'

    Any framework replacing transitive 'better than' must still assign action-guidance under conditions where Arrhenius's impossibility theorems show no consistent population axiology can satisfy all plausible adequacy conditions.

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    Key Terms

    Action-guidance(in ethics and philosophy of language)
    Information or rules that help direct what someone should do; instructions that point toward how to act.
    Adequacy conditions(as used in epistemology)
    The minimum standards or requirements that something must meet in order to be considered acceptable or successful.
    Arrhenius's impossibility theorems(as used in ethics)
    Mathematical proofs by philosopher Gustaf Arrhenius showing that no single rule can satisfy all the things we'd reasonably want a population ethics theory to do.
    Impossibility theorem(as used in logic and ethics)
    A mathematical proof that shows a certain goal cannot be achieved—that there's no way to satisfy all your requirements at the same time.
    Population axiology

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    (as used in ethics)
    A branch of ethics that tries to figure out what makes a world with different numbers and types of people 'good' or 'bad'—for example, is a world with fewer happy people better than one with more less-happy people?
    Transitive 'better than'(as used in ethics and decision-making)
    A logical rule where if A is better than B, and B is better than C, then A must be better than C—like how it works with numbers (5 > 3 and 3 > 1 means 5 > 1).
    framework(Carnap's philosophy of language and logic)
    A structured system of rules or language that must be in place for rational discourse to be possible.

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