Sorry, why are V and V’ equally hard to define? Like if V is “human flourishing” and U is GDP then V’ is “twice GDP minus human flourishing” which is more complicated than V. I guess you’re gonna say “Why not say that V is twice GDP minus human flourishing?”? But my point is: for any particular set U,V, V’, you can’t claim that V and V’ are equally simple, and you can’t claim that V and V’ are equally correlated with U. Right?
Sorry, why are V and V’ equally hard to define? Like if V is “human flourishing” and U is GDP then V’ is “twice GDP minus human flourishing” which is more complicated than V. I guess you’re gonna say “Why not say that V is twice GDP minus human flourishing?”? But my point is: for any particular set U,V, V’, you can’t claim that V and V’ are equally simple, and you can’t claim that V and V’ are equally correlated with U. Right?
Almost equally hard to define. You just need to define U, which, by assumption, is easy.