Recently a lot has been written on the topic of value incomparability. While there is disagreement on how we are to understand incomparability, most seem to accept Ruth Chang's claim that all comparisons must proceed in some specific respect. Call this the Requirement for Specification. Interestingly, even though most seem to accept this requirement, next to nothing has been written on it. In this paper I focus on the requirement and discuss two different but related topics. First, an important observation is made: as it turns out, the requirement plays an important explanatory role for the thesis that incomparability is to be understood in terms of vagueness. Second, I consider what is entailed by the Requirement for Specification. There is a general worry that the requirement entails that there is no such thing as goodness simpliciter. The line of thought is that if we always must specify in which way something is e.g., better than something else, then perhaps things cannot be better simpliciter. And if there is no such thing as betterness-simpliciter, then can there be such a thing as goodness simpliciter? Finally, I consider how an answer to this question affects the view that incomparability is vagueness. (Less)

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模糊和善良简化器

最近有很多关于价值不可比性的文章。虽然在我们如何理解不可比性方面存在分歧，但大多数人似乎接受 Ruth Chang 的主张，即所有比较都必须在某些特定方面进行。将此称为规范要求。有趣的是，尽管大多数人似乎接受了这一要求，但几乎没有任何内容写在上面。在本文中，我重点关注需求并讨论两个不同但相关的主题。首先，进行了一个重要的观察：事实证明，该要求对于不可比较性应根据模糊性来理解的论点起着重要的解释作用。其次，我考虑了规范要求所包含的内容。有一种普遍的担忧是，该要求意味着不存在善良简单化这样的东西。思路是，如果我们总是必须指定某种东西比其他东西更好的方式，那么也许事情就不能更简单了。如果没有 Betterness-simpliciter 这样的东西，那么是否有 goodness simpliciter 这样的东西？最后，我考虑了对这个问题的回答如何影响不可比性是模糊性的观点。（较少的）