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发帖数: 135 | 1 Every action has consequences, and among the consequences of any action are
other actions. And knowing whether its consequences is good requires knowing
whether its consequences are good, but we can not know the future, so good
actions are impossible.
Which one of the following is an assumption on which the arguments depends?
A. Only actions can be the consequences of other actions.
B. For an action to be good we must be able to know that it is good.
Which one is the right answer, why? | n***e
发帖数: 461 | 2 action -> consequences. b/c we don't know whether the consequences are good,
therefore good actions are IMPOSSIBLE.
the problem of this logic is that maybe an action is inherently (or
objectively) good regardless of our knowledge that it's good. therefore good
actions are possible, unless we presume that we have to be conscious that
it is good to start with.
I never really figured out a way to deal with this kind of questions on the
"missing presumption" except based on my instinct. Yet there're |
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