betterness

Indeed, it doesn't seem clear that there is any objective way of assessing 'betterness' in music.

Reminding You That All Religions Were Once New James F. McGrath 2008

Dante stands in no class at all, nor does Milton, nor does Shelley; and though Shakespeare indulgently permits himself to be classed as an "Elizabethan dramatist," what strikes true critics most is again hardly more his "betterness" than his difference.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

This process also needs to be spiral so that we can continuously pursue "betterness" in various aspects of education.

Academic Commons 2009

That sounds like a definite betterness indeed, and very encouraging.

mrissa: What we call progress mrissa 2010

Her illness was psychosomatic, so her betterness has to be too.

Zombies vs. Unicorns Justine Larbalestier 2010

I like Macs, but I wish the company was secure enough in its betterness to present itself simply as creating great products, not as a creating products that are better than everything else.

Smug Ugly - Anil Dash 2007

I can attest to the fact that bicycle gearing shares a non-linear log exponential-type betterness factor with the earthquake Richter Scale: 11 is waaaaaay better than 10, and 10 is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay better than 9, and so on.

The Irrelevancy of Time: Bicycle Products Don't Spoil BikeSnobNYC 2009

There are probably more such relations, e.g. temporal precedence and betterness.

Tropes Bacon, John 2008

This view constitutes a more radical threat to the computation of intrinsic value than does the view that intrinsic betterness is not transitive.

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value Zimmerman, Michael J. 2007

One response to these puzzles (eschewed by Parfit himself) is to adopt the thesis of the nontransitivity of intrinsic betterness.

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value Zimmerman, Michael J. 2007