Weak Independence Is Sufficient for Making Weak Superiority Collapse into Strong Superiority

Susumu Cato

doi:https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v31i3.4459

Volume 31, Number 3
May 2026

DISCUSSION

Weak Independence Is Sufficient for Making Weak Superiority Collapse into Strong Superiority

Volume 31, Number 3, May 2026, Pages 469–475

https://doi.org/10.26556/jesp.v31i3.4459

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Abstract

This discussion note establishes a previously overlooked connection between significant results in the literature on Millian superiorities. I demonstrate that weak independence is sufficient for weak superiority to collapse into strong superiority, a result previously assumed to require the stronger axiom of independence. I then argue that this strongly restricts the possibilities of Millian value theory.

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