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    It is not the case that Evaluation remains creative even when it presupposes certain prizings.

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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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    • 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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