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    It is not the case that Rejecting the reduction of incommensurability to indifference dissolves the apparent intransitivity without requiring revision of rational preference logic.

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    • 1.If incommensurable options cannot be ordered by preference logic, agents must still choose; this choice data appears indistinguishable from preference.
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    • 2.Carving out incommensurable pairs as 'outside preference logic' merely relabels the problem rather than solving the intransitivity puzzle.
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    • 3.Without a decision procedure for incommensurable cases, the claim lacks practical rational guidance for real choice situations.
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    • 1.Incommensurability means values lack a common metric, not that agents are indifferent between them.
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    • 2.Distinguishing incommensurability from indifference preserves rational comparability without forcing reduction to a single scale.
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    • 3.Standard preference logic requires transitivity only within commensurable options; incomparable items fall outside its scope legitimately.
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