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    Deliberation assigns weights to prized qualities in the c... — Carmelics
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    Deliberation assigns weights to prized qualities in the context of choice rather than taking those weights as given.

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    • 1.The weight of a prized quality cannot be determined in isolation — only when seen instantiated in combination with other qualities among the available alternatives.
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    • 2.The future use of the chosen object as a means must also be considered when assigning weights.
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    • 3.Prior habitual weightings may be maladapted to the novel features of a new situation.
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    • 1.Aristotle's phronesis requires that the virtuous agent perceive saliences correctly precisely because stable character disposes one to weight goods reliably without fresh deliberation.
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    • 2.If weights must be re-assigned in every choice context, the practically wise person gains no advantage over the novice, collapsing the distinction between virtue and mere deliberative competence.
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    • 1.Intuitionist moral epistemology (Ross, Prichard) holds that the relative stringency of prima facie duties is apprehended directly, not constructed through contextual weighing.
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    • 2.Dewey's account conflates the epistemic act of recognizing a weight with the metaphysical status of that weight, which can be objective and prior to any particular deliberative episode.
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    One might still object that this is not enough to show that practical judgment is genuinely creative. Perhaps it just takes given prizings and determines the end through some kind of vector addition, taking their weights as given. If a man is out to buy a suit, for instance, he approaches the problem with a given set of habitual priorities — for example, that durability and cheapness are more important than style. The man’s choice of suit thus merely reflects the weights of the man’s already giv
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