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    Evaluation remains creative even when it presupposes cert... — Carmelics
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    Evaluation remains creative even when it presupposes certain prizings.

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    • 1.Even given fixed prizings (things valued), it is still up to the agent to assign weights to those prizings in light of the novel features of the context.
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    • 2.Prior weightings cannot determine current ones because prior weightings may be maladapted to the new situation.
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    • 1.Aristotle's phronesis requires that practical wisdom operates through stable character dispositions, not open-ended creative reweighting.
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    • 2.If evaluation were genuinely creative at each juncture, the virtuous agent would lack the reliable dispositional consistency that defines virtue itself.
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    • 3.Dewey's 'creativity' thus undermines the very stability of character that makes moral evaluation trustworthy rather than arbitrary.
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    • 1.Wittgenstein's rule-following argument shows that genuine normativity requires criteria that constrain application, not perpetual creative reinterpretation.
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    • 2.If prior weightings never determine current ones, as Dewey implies, then no evaluation is genuinely guided by a prizing at all—only the appearance of guidance exists.
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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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