Comparison and the Justification of Choice

University of Pennsylvania Law Review 146:1569-98 (1998)
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This paper takes some steps toward defending the idea that justified choice always depends on the comparability of the alternatives. If the arguments are right, there can be no justified choice among incomparable alternatives.

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