Derek Parfit defends the Imprecise Lexical View as a way to avoid the Repugnant Conclusion. Allowing for ‘imprecise equality’, Parfit argues, makes it possible to avoid some well-known problems for the Lexical View. It is demonstrated that the Lexical View (without imprecise equality) has stronger implications than envisaged by Parfit; moreover, his assumption of Non-diminishing Marginal Value makes the Lexical View collapse into a much stronger view, which lets the two appear incompatible. Introducing imprecise equality does not address the latter problem. But it does makes it possible for the Imprecise Lexical View to soften the discontinuities it would otherwise face, at the cost of blurring the difference between options.However, if Non-diminishing Marginal Value is rejected, the remaining complications for the resulting most plausible version of the Imprecise Lexical View, including a confrontation with Arrhenius’ Non-Elitism Condition, may be within a range where the view largely remains defensible.

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弱优势、不精确的平等和令人反感的结论

德里克·帕菲特防守不精确的词汇视图作为一种避免令人反感的结论. Parfit 认为，允许“不精确的平等”可以避免一些众所周知的问题词汇视图. 证明了词汇视图（没有不精确的平等）比 Parfit 所设想的具有更强的含义；此外，他的假设非递减边际价值使词汇视图合并成一个更强烈的观点，这让两者看起来不相容。引入不精确的相等并不能解决后一个问题。但它确实使不精确的词汇视图软化否则会面临的不连续性，代价是模糊选项之间的差异。但是，如果非递减边际价值被拒绝，剩下的复杂性为由此产生的最合理的版本不精确的词汇视图，包括与阿累尼乌斯的对抗非精英条件, 可能在该观点在很大程度上仍然可以辩护的范围内。