… counterintuitive conclusions. Thus, the question as to how the Repugnant Conclusion should
… , what it shows about the nature of ethics has turned the conclusion into one of the cardinal …

… In defending this Imprecisionist Lexical View, I shall first discuss what we can call the
Continuum Argument for the Repugnant Conclusion. This argument's main premise claims that …

… for him that the repugnancies of the Repugnant Conclusion are not really repugnant, then
he will convert to the classical principle. Otherwise, he will adopt the Given Population View. …

… same kind of answer can be given with respect to the Repugnant Conclusion. Thnsjo has …
We simply cannot imagine what the larger population in the Repugnant Conclusion would …

… arguments to the effect that the repugnant conclusion follows … principle does not imply the
repugnant conclusion, we must … in the literature, but, because the repugnant conclusion has …

… the dilemma behind the Repugnant Conclusion in terms of a more general problem with
comparing conflicting values. To generalize the … by weighing and comparing the values that de…

… understood to escape the repugnant conclusion do not in fact … of the repugnant conclusion
that exclude some repugnant … In fact, under the understanding of the repugnant conclusion …

… conclusion very hard to accept' (p. 388). What, precisely, is the problem of the repugnant
conclusion… Therefore, we cannot solve the puzzle of the Repugnant Conclusion by claiming that …

… initial appearances, the structure along the continuum is not uniform; the R-relation, say,'…
structure halts the slide to the repugnant conclusion. All structural solutions deny that the R-…

… may at first sight seem unacceptable, it is not repugnant, ie it is … arguments to the effect that
the repugnant conclusion follows … principle does not imply the repugnant conclusion, we must …