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    Supports→Monism cannot ground rational conflict in value choice.

    Ruth Chang's work on 'on a par' options demonstrates that value comparisons can be neither better, worse, nor equal, a logical space monism collapses by reducing all comparisons to a single ordinal scale.

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    Ruth Chang(as the philosopher proposing the concept discussed)
    A contemporary philosopher who studies how we make decisions and comparisons between things, particularly when it's unclear which option is better.
    monism(Used to describe classical utilitarianism as an example of a single-principle moral theory.)
    A moral position that holds there is only one absolute moral principle, such that conflict between principles is impossible.
    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
    ordinal scale(Measurement of linguistic acceptability judgments)
    A scale that represents items in ranked order but does not capture the magnitude of difference between positions.

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