0 a remark or statement that may be true but is boring and has no meaning because it has been said so many times before: --
1 a statement that has been repeated so often that it is meaningless: --
They nodded at every platitude about making sacrifices today for a better tomorrow.
And since 'individual goodness measure' features in the standard definition of utilitarianism, it thereby features in those platitudes, at least implicitly.
What determines the set of individual goodness measures just is the body of platitudes we accept about utilitarianism and prioritarianism.
So it is those platitudes which are going to implicitly define the term if anything does.
If we are to appeal to the platitude about distributive sensitivity to constrain interpretation, we need an alternate reading of it.
It might be objected that whereas the standard claim about distributive sensitivity is widely regarded as a platitude, the alternate claim is not.
Once she is reminded of certain platitudes about vagueness, the legal theorist needs no further help from philosophers of language and logic.
First, another platitude : a language is not a language without representational signs.
This result will be important when we return to the platitude about ethical significance.
