Conflating the probability of constraint with constraint itself smuggles a consequentialist metric into a concept that Berlin explicitly defined in terms of present, actual barriers.

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Berlin(the philosopher being critiqued): Isaiah Berlin was a 20th-century philosopher and historian of ideas known for arguing that we should understand historical figures based on how they saw their own world, not how we see it today.
Conflating: Conflating means mixing together or treating two different things as if they were the same thing, when they're actually distinct. It's a logical error where someone blurs important differences between concepts, ideas, or situations to make an argument seem stronger than it is. For example, conflating "being critical of a policy" with "being disloyal to your country" wrongly equates two separate things.
Consequentialist metric(what critics argue gets illegitimately introduced into the concept of freedom): A way of measuring or evaluating something based on what results or outcomes it produces, rather than what it actually is in the present moment.
Probability of constraint(contrasted with constraint itself): How likely it is that something will limit or prevent your choices, rather than the actual limitation itself.

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