The Numbers Count

Thought: A Journal of Philosophy 6 (2):129-134 (2017)
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Numbers Skeptics deny that when faced with a choice between saving some innocent people from harm and saving a larger number of different, though equally innocent, people from suffering a similar harm you ought to save the larger number. In this article, I aim to put pressure on Numbers Skepticism.

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