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    It is not the case that A piecemeal analysis of individual opportunities is insufficient for evaluating a 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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    • 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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