Philosophy Bites

Larry Temkin on Transitivity

Jul 6, 2015 · 20 min · 15.2 MB
0:00-20:57

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How do you choose which course of action is best? It seems reasonable that if A is better than B, and B is better than C, A must be better than C. But is it? Larry Temkin challenges this idea, known as the axiom of transitivity.