Defining ``good'' and ``bad'' in terms of ``better''.
Sven Ove Hansson · Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic · 1989
Monadic predicates for "good" and "bad" are inserted into structures already containing the dyadic predicate "better".A set of logical properties for "good" and "bad" is proposed, and a complete characterization is given of the pairs of monadic predicates that have these properties.It is argued that "good" and "bad" can indeed be defined in terms of "better", and a definition is given that is more generally applicable than those previously proposed.