Making Comparisons Count

New York: Routledge (2001)
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This book attempts to answer two questions: Are alternatives for choice ever incomparable? and In what ways can items be compared? The arguments offered suggest that alternatives for choice no matter how different are never incomparable, and that the ways in which items can be compared are richer and more varied than commonly supposed

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BJ1419.C43 2002

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9780815337829   9781138980211   1138980218   9781315054391   0815337825
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