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    A piecemeal analysis of individual opportunities is insuf... — Carmelics
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    A piecemeal analysis of individual opportunities is insufficient for evaluating a person's real freedom.

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    • 1.What matters is not only which opportunities are open to a person individually, but which combinations or sets of potential functionings are simultaneously available.
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    • 2.A low-skilled poor single parent in a society without decent social provisions may individually have access to both holding a job and caring for their children, yet be unable to do both at the same time.
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    • 3.If two functionings that individually appear available cannot be pursued together, then a piecemeal analysis overstates the person's real freedom.
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    • 1.Opportunity sets are themselves composed of discrete, enumerable options that can be analyzed individually without remainder.
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    • 2.Gerald Cohen's mid-level analysis of specific unfreedoms demonstrates that identifying particular blocked options provides actionable, non-redundant information about freedom.
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    • 3.Aggregating individual opportunity analyses yields a functionally equivalent picture to a holistic combinatorial analysis, making the 'piecemeal' critique a difference of presentation, not substance.
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    • 1.Isaiah Berlin's negative liberty framework holds that freedom is constituted by the absence of specific, identifiable interferences rather than by structural assessments of combined option sets.
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    • 2.If real freedom requires holistic combinatorial evaluation, then freedom becomes practically unassessable, since the number of potential functioning combinations grows exponentially with social complexity.
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    Thus, according to the capability approach, the ends of well-being freedom, justice, and development should be conceptualized in terms of people’s capabilities. Moreover, what is relevant is not only which opportunities are open to me each by themselves, hence in a piecemeal way, but rather which combinations or sets of potential functionings are open to me. For example, suppose I am a low-skilled poor single parent who lives in a society without decent social provisions. Take the following func
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