Expected-value and probabilistic frameworks are structurally incapable of representing action-structural or deontic facts, as they assign moral weight exclusively to states of the world rather than to the normative character of agency itself.
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Systems of thinking that use probability and statistics to evaluate choices and outcomes, treating everything as a matter of how likely different results are.
States of the world(as used in decision theory)
The possible conditions or outcomes that could exist—what the world could be like after an action is taken.
Structurally incapable(suggesting the league's basic design prevents it from working)
Unable to do something because of how it's fundamentally built or organized, not because of temporary problems that could be fixed.
moral weight(as used in ethics)
How serious or significant a wrong action is; how much it matters ethically.