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    Challenges→A piecemeal analysis of individual opportunities is insufficient for evaluating a person's real freedom.

    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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    Key Terms

    Aggregating(as in combining district-level majorities)
    Combining or adding together multiple pieces of information or votes to reach an overall result.
    Combinatorial analysis(the opposite approach to analyzing things one piece at a time)
    A way of studying something by looking at how all the different parts fit together and interact at the same time.
    Difference of presentation(used to argue that two methods just look different but are really the same)
    A distinction that exists only in how you describe or show something, not in what the thing actually is.
    Holistic(describing Kagan's method of evaluating value)
    An approach that focuses on the whole picture or complete situation rather than breaking things down into separate parts.
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    (used to describe analyzing possibilities one at a time)
    A careful examination of what options or choices are available in a particular situation.
    Piecemeal(critiqued as being less thorough than looking at everything together)
    Dealing with something by breaking it into small parts and handling each part separately, one at a time.
    functionally equivalent(as used in philosophy of mind and metaphysics)
    Two things that work the same way or produce the same results, even if they're different in other ways.
    substance(Spinoza's metaphysics; criteria include (i) necessity and (ii) self-subsistence)
    The fundamental existent that is wholly necessary and self-subsistent, not depending on anything else for its existence

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