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    If options A and B are incommensurable, then sweetening A... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The indifference relation generated by incommensurability is intransitive

    If options A and B are incommensurable, then sweetening A to a slightly better A+ still leaves A+ and B incommensurable

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    Incommensurability is most directly a challenge to Completeness, since on the most natural interpretation of \(\succcurlyeq,\) the fact that \(A\) and \(B\) are incommensurable means that neither \(A \succcurlyeq B\) nor \(B \succcurlyeq A.\) But incommensurability can instead be framed as a challenge to Transitivity, if we assume that incommensurability is indifference, or define \(A \succcurlyeq B\) as the negation of \(B \succ A\) (thus assuming Completeness by definition). To see this, notic

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