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    It is not the case that Axiological ultimacy entails a standard of value that transcends and grounds particular instances, so love-occasions cannot be both the measure and the measured without vicious circularity.

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    • 1.Transcendence and grounding may not require independence; love could exemplify value while also measuring it without circularity.
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    • 2.The measured/measurer distinction may be a category error; some phenomena constitute their own standards intrinsically.
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    • 3.Vicious circularity requires logical redundancy; self-exemplifying standards can be informative and non-redundant.
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    • 1.Any standard of value must be independent of what it measures, or else it cannot reliably evaluate instances of that value.
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    • 2.Love-occasions, as particular temporal events, cannot possess the transcendent, unchanging character required of an ultimate standard.
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    • 3.Self-referential standards create epistemic problems: we'd need the standard to validate itself, making objective evaluation impossible.
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