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    Comparativism is compatible with multiple theories of int... — Carmelics
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    Comparativism is compatible with multiple theories of intrinsic value, not just intrinsic hedonism.

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    • 1.Comparativists can accept intrinsic hedonism, but need not.
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    • 2.Comparativists could pair comparativism with a preferentialist view that desire fulfillment is intrinsically good and desire thwarting is intrinsically bad.
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    • 3.Comparativism is neutral on the issue of what counts as intrinsic goods and evils.
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    • 1.Comparativism's core comparative structure presupposes that well-being admits of scalar measurement across states, which hedonism uniquely supports.
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    • 2.Objective list and desire-satisfaction theories generate incommensurable goods that resist the cross-state quantitative comparisons comparativism requires.
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    • 3.A theory that structurally depends on cardinal welfare comparisons is not genuinely neutral between theories that deny such comparisons are possible.
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    • 1.Fred Feldman's deprivationism shows that comparativism requires identifying a baseline subject of comparison, and what counts as 'the same subject' varies across value theories.
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    • 2.If personal identity conditions differ between hedonist and preferentialist accounts, then comparativism yields different and incompatible verdicts depending on which theory is paired with it.
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    • 3.A framework that produces structurally divergent results under different value pairings is not genuinely neutral but rather differentially compatible with those theories.
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    Comparativism is neutral on the issue of what counts as the intrinsic goods and evils.
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    Comparativists can accept intrinsic hedonism, but need not. They could, for example, pair comparativism with some version of the preferentialist view (mentioned earlier) that getting what we want—fulfilling one of our desires—is intrinsically good for us, and having our desires thwarted is intrinsically bad for us. Comparativism is neutral on the issue of what counts as the intrinsic goods and evils. Theorists who conclude that things other than pleasure are intrinsically good for us will want to weigh them in when they assess an individual’s welfare level. For example, preferentialists can sa...
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    Validity: The premises directly state that comparativism is neutral on intrinsic value theory and can be paired with either hedonism or preferentialism, which collectively support the conclusion that it is compatible with multiple theories of intrinsic value, and all premises are explicitly present in the source passage.

    Confidence: Clearly stated in the text as an explicit argument for the neutrality/flexibility of comparativism.

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