Lexicon of Arguments

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Order/benefit theory/benefit/scale/calibration/Von Neumann/Morgenstern/Stalnaker: e.g. someone prefers duck over salmon and salmon over oatmeal, A > B > C.
Refinement of the scale: one asks a person whether they would prefer B or a 50/50 lot for A v C - if they choose B, it means that they have shifted more to the left on their scale B, closer to A.
This process can be repeated to reach ever further refinements.
Preferences between lots determine numerical values for benefits.
Question: is it useful to compare preferences interpersonally? It does definitely not mean that there were facts that were hidden from us. E.g. just as we also cannot say that grams are less than kilometers.
Solution: interpersonal comparisons are not useful, because there is no non-conventional point zero.
>Comparisons, >Comparability, >Preferences, cf. >Arrow's Theorem.

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