What does optimific mean?
Optimific means (philosophy) producing the optimum outcome.
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/ˌɑp.tɪˈmɪf.ɪk/ · adjective
(philosophy) producing the optimum outcome.
The U-agent will have few choices about how to lead his life, few opportunities to act on considerations of the kind of person he is, or wants to become. He will thus have little room for the things we associate with the very idea of 'leading a life'. These will all be submerged beneath the question of which causal levers are optimific.
If we suppose that everyone will try to follow some set of rules, some possible rules would be optimific in the sense that, if these are the rules that everyone tries to follow, things would go best.
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Optimific means (philosophy) producing the optimum outcome.
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The U-agent will have few choices about how to lead his life, few opportunities to act on considerations of the kind of person he is, or wants to become. He will thus have little room for the things we associate with the very idea of 'leading a life'. These will all be submerged beneath the question of which causal levers are optimific.
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