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    It is not the case that Deliberation assigns weights to prized qualities in the context of choice rather than taking those weights as given.

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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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    • 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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