You’re right, I didn’t think about that. However, if avoiding grief were a terminal value but avoiding death weren’t, you’d be indifferent between world A and world B (in my original formulation). Are you?
I do prefer world A to world B in your original formulation. Unfortunately, from that fact we can only deduce that I’m not certain that avoiding death isn’t a terminal value. But I already knew that...
If there is a fact of the matter on whether avoiding death is a terminal value, where does that fact reside? Do you believe your mind contains some additional information for identifying terminal values, but that information is somehow hidden and didn’t stop you from claiming that “you’re not certain”?
You’re right, I didn’t think about that. However, if avoiding grief were a terminal value but avoiding death weren’t, you’d be indifferent between world A and world B (in my original formulation). Are you?
I do prefer world A to world B in your original formulation. Unfortunately, from that fact we can only deduce that I’m not certain that avoiding death isn’t a terminal value. But I already knew that...
If there is a fact of the matter on whether avoiding death is a terminal value, where does that fact reside? Do you believe your mind contains some additional information for identifying terminal values, but that information is somehow hidden and didn’t stop you from claiming that “you’re not certain”?
I’m not Wei_Dai but in the general case that is how facts of the matter work.