Consider the difference (if any) between:¡¡"Jack's house is finished", "It's a good house", and "Jack's house is perfect".¡¡Is saying that a house is "finished" ultimately any different from saying that it is "perfect" or "good"?¡¡Is "being finished" a fact, whereas "being good" and "being perfect" are values?

Perhaps there is no difference at all between the goodness of a cognitive process and the fact that it has been completed, so it is unnecessary to go looking for its goodness beyond the fact of its completion.

(I'm relying here on Alasdair MacIntyre's position that the classic fact-value distinction is not a real one.)

(by Ann Olivier)

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