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And sometimes they do so because of evaluative judgments based in ultimately nonhedonic grounds.
Pleasure Katz, Leonard D. 2006
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Such approaches leave open the possibility of nonhedonic desire, motivation, and approach behavior, which tighter analytic or theoretical connections (as have been made, for example, by some hedonists and behaviorists) may counterintuitively exclude.
Pleasure Katz, Leonard D. 2006
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& researcher only interested in one single topic, chance (particularly extreme & rare events, the "Black Swans" ie outliers); but it falls at the intersection of philosophy/epistemology (skepticism; knowledge about the dynamics of history; inferential claims), philosophy/ethics (stoicism facing random events; theories of nonhedonic happiness), mathematical sciences (probability theory, statistical physics), social science/finance
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