In this paper, I criticize the pairing of irreducible thickness (the view that thick concepts do not reduce to thin evaluations plus some descriptive component) with the traditional view of evaluation which says evaluation is a matter of encoding good or bad in some way. To do this, I first explicate the determination view, which holds that irreducibly thick concepts are to thin concepts as determinates are to determinables. I then show that, even if the determination view did establish irreducible thickness, it would not have proven that the evaluative is well understood as being an instance of the determination relation; in order to do that, the determination view needs to show how the evaluative fit a general analysis of the determination relation. However, when the determination view attempts to fill in the analysis, we get implausible results—so implausible, I claim, that we should see the results as a reductio to the view. To generalize the criticism to any view like the determination view, I show that the same results ensue when we model the evaluative on mereology. Finally, I diagnose the general failure by claiming that the evaluative domain, as conceived by the defender of irreducible thickness, just does not have the structure to secure the tight connection between thick and thin concepts while also carving up our conceptual economy in a plausible way.

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不可减少的厚评估不是薄评估

在这篇论文中，我批评了不可约的厚度（认为厚的概念不会减少到薄的评估加上一些描述性成分的观点）与传统的评估观点的配对，传统的评估观点认为评估是以某种方式编码好坏的问题。为此，我首先说明确定论，它认为不可约的粗概念对细概念的处理就像确定项对可确定项一样。然后我证明，即使确定视图确实建立了不可约的厚度，也不能证明评价式被很好地理解为确定关系的一个实例；为了做到这一点，确定视图需要显示评估如何适合确定关系的一般分析。但是，当确定视图尝试填写分析时，我们得到了难以置信的结果——太难以置信了，我声称，我们应该把结果看作是对视图的简化。为了将批评概括为诸如决定论之类的任何观点，我表明当我们对分体学的评价进行建模时，会产生相同的结果。最后，我通过声称不可约厚度的捍卫者所构想的评估域没有结构来确保厚薄概念之间的紧密联系，同时也以合理的方式分割我们的概念经济，从而诊断出普遍的失败.