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    It is not the case that If Ross claims knowledge is not intrinsically valuable but intellectual activities are, then Ross cannot consistently claim that an intellectual activity is better when it issues in knowledge.

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    • 1.Ross holds that intellectual activities are intrinsically good, not knowledge itself.
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    • 2.Saying an activity is better when it issues in knowledge implies knowledge has intrinsic value.
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    • 3.These two positions are in tension.
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    • 1.For Ross, intrinsic value is value a thing has in itself, independent of its relations to other things.
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    • 2.If knowledge enhances the value of an activity only through its relational connection to that activity, then knowledge bears instrumental, not intrinsic, value.
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    • 3.Claiming activity A is better than activity B because A produces knowledge entails knowledge contributes value beyond the activity itself, contradicting Ross's restriction of intrinsic goodness to the activity alone.
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    • 1.G.E. Moore's principle of organic unities holds that the value of a whole need not equal the sum of its parts' values.
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    • 2.Ross explicitly distances himself from Moore's organic unity principle when assigning intrinsic value to discrete goods like virtue, pleasure, and intellectual activity.
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    • 3.Without appeal to organic unity, Ross has no principled mechanism to explain why knowledge-issuing activity is better without granting knowledge independent intrinsic worth.
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