In that case, we should be unable to make sense of claims concerning increases or decreases in total utility.We should, however, still be capable of talking meaningfully about pareto improvements.

• 然而，假设总效用概念没有意义的话，我们就搞不懂关于总效用的增加或减少的说法，但我们探讨帕累托改善仍会是有意义的。