Whoa! Hold your horses! I started out by saying: “I don’t know what you are trying to say.” Clarify definitions away—if that is the problem—which seems rather unlikely.
Saying that preferences are values is tautological...
seemed more like an assertion than an attempt to seek clarification, but I apologize if I misinterpreted your intention.
The EDIT was supposed to be an attempt to clarify. Does the claim I made there make sense to you?
FWIW, to my way of thinking, we can talk about hypothetical preferences just about as easily as hypothetical values.
I’m afraid that I don’t understand the relevance of this to the discussion. Could you expand?
Whoa! Hold your horses! I started out by saying: “I don’t know what you are trying to say.” Clarify definitions away—if that is the problem—which seems rather unlikely.
seemed more like an assertion than an attempt to seek clarification, but I apologize if I misinterpreted your intention.
The EDIT was supposed to be an attempt to clarify. Does the claim I made there make sense to you?
FWIW, to my way of thinking, we can talk about hypothetical preferences just about as easily as hypothetical values.
I’m afraid that I don’t understand the relevance of this to the discussion. Could you expand?