Robert Adams defends a platonic account of goodness, understood as excellence, claiming that there exists good all other things must resemble, identifying the Good with God. Mark Murphy agrees, but argues this is in need Aristotelian supplementation, resemblance take into thing’s kind-membership. While article will accept something like Murphy’s goodness (but without God), it further develop it...

In this paper a general model is described which measures the goodness of equal-tempered scales. To investigate the nature of this ’goodness’, the consonance measures developed by Euler and Helmholtz are discussed and applied to two different sets of intervals. Based on our model, the familiar 12-tone equal temperament does not have an extraordinary goodness. Others, such as the 19-tone equal t...

This paper discusses a recent development in partial least squares (PLS) path modeling, namely goodness-of-fit indices. In order to illustrate the behavior of the goodness-of-fit index (GoF) and the relative goodness-of-fit index (GoFrel), we estimate PLS path models with simulated data, and contrast their values with fit indices commonly used in covariance-based structural equation modeling. T...