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    It is not the case that Bentham's hedonism can accommodate intuitions about higher and lower pleasures without appealing to qualitative distinctions

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    • 1.Bentham measures pleasure along multiple quantitative parameters: intensity, duration, certainty, propinquity, fecundity, purity, and extent
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    • 2.Intellectual pleasures score more highly than sensual pleasures along several of these parameters
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    • 3.Scoring more highly along quantitative parameters gives reason to prefer intellectual pleasures
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