The possibility of parity

Ethics 112 (4):659-688 (2002)
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Abstract

This paper argues for the existence of a fourth positive generic value relation that can hold between two items beyond ‘better than’, ‘worse than’, and ‘equally good’: namely ‘on a par’.

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