Hedonic Calculus
Inventor of the Hedonic Calculus
Who is Jeremy Bentham?
The third key feature of Utilitarianism, after consequentialism and hedonism
What is equity?
"I think therefore I am"
What is the Cogito?
A sentence with a truth value
What is a statement?
Leibniz compared the mind to this
What is a block of marble?
The number of components of the hedonic calculus
What is 7?
Roger Crisp asked if you would you rather be Joseph Hadyn or this creature
What is an oyster?
He might be messing with you for fun, to make you think 2 + 3 = 5
What is the malicious demon?
If the premises are true, the conclusion must be true
What is a valid argument?
The theory that knowledge is justified, true belief
What is the tripartite theory of knowledge?
How sure you are about the outcome of an action
What is certainty?
Pleasure that leads to flourishing as a human being, such as playing chess or reading classical literature
What is a higher pleasure?
What Descartes might be doing when he thinks he's sitting by the fire
What is dreaming?
Arguing without evidence that one thing will lead to a series of things that end with a bad outcome, therefore you should not do the first thing
What is the slippery slope fallacy?
The view that knowledge can never be certain, as knowledge claims can never be justified
How long the pleasure will last
What is duration?
The term given to Utilitarianism by people who think it would lead to debauchery, where people are only thinking about having a good time
What is pig morality?
Where Descartes likes to store his knowledge apples
What is a basket?
Presenting only two options in an argument when there are in fact more
What is the false dilemma fallacy?
The view that the foundation of knowledge is reason
What is rationalism?
How likely the action is to create further happiness
What is fecundity?
"The right action in any circumstance is the one that will likely result in the greatest overall happiness"
What is the Greatest Happiness Principle?
The type of knowledge that survives the dreaming argument
What is a priori?
A way of presenting an argument by labelling the premises and conclusion, rewriting these as standalone statements and removing unnecessary statements
What is standard form?
The argument that each justification for knowledge needs itself to be justified, and so on forever
What is the infinite regress of reason?