Ross-Style Pluralism and Gradability

Abstract

In this chapter, I will switch from talking about the ‘goodness’ of acts, to the ‘fittingness’ of acts. I do this to match Ross’s use of the word ‘fitting’. However, I take ‘good’ in the sense in which I am using it, applied to acts, to be synonymous with Ross’s ‘fitting to the situation’.¹ A good act is one that is fitting to the situation. If x is more fitting than y, in Ross’s terminology, then (in more every day terminology)² x is better than y.