like for example i guess you could say if your utility function is bimodal, it's not based on similarity to an ideal
can you look at the structure of a criterion for goodness or beauty and be able to tell whether it originated in "similarity to an ideal"
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but then maybe that just means there are two ideals
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so if i want to state an observation like "introspection suggests beauty is similarity to an ideal thing" i'm not sure that has content
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but maybe i'm not sure "beauty is fit" has content either?
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beauty is the successful solving of such subproblems as the thing would need to solve in order to be beautiful
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if you replace "beautiful" with "effective" in that last sentence then it starts having content but maybe not before
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and then it better not be like "effective at what?" "effective at being beautiful"
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