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teaching philosophy: possibility vs. plausibility

Here’s some­thing with which I’ve noticed intro to phi­los­o­phy stu­dents tend to strug­gle: the dif­fer­ence between it being pos­si­ble that a the­ory is true, and the theory’s being plau­si­ble. Exam­ple: In the course I’m TAing this semes­ter, one of the top­ics we dis­cussed is the nature of value. In virtue of what does any­thing have