Larry Temkin on Transitivity

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Philosophy Bites

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2015-07-06

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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.
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  • The topic we're going to focus on is transitivity.

  • What is transitivity?

  • So transitivity is a property of relations.