I agree that this definition of “matters” is odd; not the one most people use in everyday speech. I think that there are ways to make other definitions rigorous (in ways that aren’t addressed in the wikipedia article I linked). But this is the narrowly consequentialist definition, so it does deserve analysis.
I agree that this definition of “matters” is odd; not the one most people use in everyday speech. I think that there are ways to make other definitions rigorous (in ways that aren’t addressed in the wikipedia article I linked). But this is the narrowly consequentialist definition, so it does deserve analysis.