Epistemic indeterminacy about where items fall on a single value scale fully explains our inability to rank them, rendering 'on a par' an unnecessary ontological posit rather than a genuine evaluative category.
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To arrange things in order from best to worst (or vice versa) based on some measure.
Value scale(used in ethics and decision-making)
A way of measuring and ranking things from worst to best (or least to most valuable) on a single dimension—like a ruler that measures goodness.
epistemology(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
on a par(Chang's terminology for the parity relation)
The relational status of two options A and B when parity holds: they are comparable but not ordered by the standard three relations