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    Supports→Stein's utilitarian argument for a strict disability-welfare correlation is flawed on its own utilitarian terms.

    A utilitarian framework that ignores actual reported welfare in favor of assumed welfare deficits substitutes aprioristic bias for the empirical sensitivity consequentialism demands.

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    Aprioristic bias(as used in epistemology)
    A prejudgment or assumption made before looking at real evidence—deciding what's true based on theory rather than what you actually observe.
    Empirical sensitivity(One of the epistemic virtues used to judge species concepts.)
    The virtue a species concept possesses when its theoretical assumptions are empirically testable.
    Utilitarian framework(as Singer's ethical approach)
    An ethical approach that says an action is morally right if it produces the greatest happiness or well-being for the greatest number of people.
    Welfare deficits(as used in ethics)
    Gaps or shortfalls between how much happiness someone actually has and how much they should have or could have.
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    (Frege treats 'analytic' as entailing 'a priori' for arithmetic.)
    Knowable independently of empirical experience; here treated as a consequence of analyticity.
    consequentialism(Applied to terrorism and legal punishment)
    The view that practices are judged solely by their consequences, such that a practice is wrong only if it has bad consequences on balance.
    welfare(Critique of Stein's strict health-welfare correlation)
    A subjective notion of well-being that is affected by multiple domains, not health alone.

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