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The Redescription Objection

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The redescription objection: psychological egoism survives every counterexample by redescribing motives—which makes it unfalsifiable, and an unfalsifiable claim reports nothing.

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Whatever the donor gives—time, blood, anonymously—the theory finds self-interest afterward. A theory compatible with everything predicts nothing.

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