0 a situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between three different things that you could do, or in which there are three difficult things that must be done:
I have spelled out this trilemma for the value of fairness.
We seem, then, to face a trilemma when distributing the costs of option luck (see figure 1).
Which is the best option for the economists of happiness to explore when facing the abovestated trilemma?
We can put the trilemma more precisely than at the beginning.
If the argument succeeds, then we can avoid the trilemma.
It appears that there is an unavoidable trilemma for the consequentialist.
The form that the trilemma takes in the epistemic case is this.
Under the classical gold standard the very idea of trilemma was not relevant to understanding monetary outcomes.
