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In the former world, I anticipate that making decisions using utilitarianism would leave me satisfied upon sufficient reflection, and more reflection after that wouldn't change my opinion. In the latter world, I don't.
So you defined true as satisfactory? What if you run into a form of repugnant conclusion, as most forms of utilitarianism do, does it mean that utilitarianism is false? Furthermore, if you compare consequentialism, virtue ethics and deontology by this criteria, some or all of them can turn out to be "true" or "false", depending on where your reflection leads you.
Yep. Yep. Yep.