Philosophy / Unit 7 Philosophy 0276 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Redescription Objection
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The idea
The redescription objection: psychological egoism survives every counterexample by redescribing motives—which makes it unfalsifiable, and an unfalsifiable claim reports nothing.
In practice
Whatever the donor gives—time, blood, anonymously—the theory finds self-interest afterward. A theory compatible with everything predicts nothing.
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