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    Supports→Evaluating decisions by expected utility collapses the distinction between a decision procedure and a criterion of rightness, a conflation Parfit and Railton both identify as a serious error.

    Expected utility is cognitively accessible to decision-makers but may not track moral reality. Using it as both procedure and criterion smuggles in false epistemological assumptions.

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    Key Terms

    Cognitively accessible(describing whether these types of awareness can be accessed by thinking about them)
    Information or experiences that your mind can reach, understand, or think about.
    Epistemological assumptions(in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    Hidden beliefs about how we know things and what counts as knowledge that are built into a theory without being stated openly.
    Procedure and criterion(in decision theory)
    A procedure is the method or steps you follow to make a decision; a criterion is the standard you use to judge whether something is correct—the statement warns against using the same approach for both.
    Smuggles in(argumentation and logic)
    Introduces something quietly or without acknowledgment, making it seem innocent when it's actually a controversial addition.

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    Track moral reality(in ethics and metaphysics)
    Accurately reflect or match up with what's actually right or wrong in the world, rather than just being a convenient tool that might miss the truth.
    expected utility(Cited as a domain where aggregated probabilities play a key role)
    A calculation that aggregates probability-weighted outcomes to determine the overall value of a decision

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