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    Because parity is a genuine fourth value relation, an age... — Carmelics
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    Supports→No choice between incomparable bearers of value is intelligible in the ways suggested by Raz or Finnis.

    Because parity is a genuine fourth value relation, an agent's will-based resolution of a choice between parity-related options is not arbitrary but tracks a real evaluative structure that Raz's framework systematically ignores.

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    Key Terms

    Evaluative structure(in ethics)
    The underlying system or framework that determines what counts as good, bad, right, or wrong in a particular situation.
    Raz's framework(in philosophy of action and value theory)
    A theory about how to make decisions developed by philosopher Joseph Raz, who argued that choices should be based on comparing reasons for and against each option.
    Value relation(as a type of logical comparison)
    A rule for comparing things based on how good or desirable they are—like determining whether one option is better, worse, or equal to another.
    Will-based resolution(in philosophy of action)
    Making a choice by exercising your own decision-making power, rather than being forced or having the choice made for you.
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    (Economics terminology applied to medical ethics)
    The party in a principal-agent relationship who is instructed to produce the good or service on the principal's behalf — in the medical context, the doctor
    arbitrary(Debate over Locke's watch passage and natural kind classification)
    Does not mean 'random' or that all qualities are equally adequate as differentia; refers instead to the availability of multiple similarly good and natural grounds for classification.
    parity(Proposed by Chang as an alternative to incomparabilism)
    A fourth value relation between two options A and B such that A and B are comparable but none of the three standard ordering relations (greater than, less than, equal to) holds between them

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