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    Friendship may be an expression or enhancement of flouris... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The shared activity of friendship is partly constitutive of human flourishing.

    Friendship may be an expression or enhancement of flourishing rather than a partly constitutive condition of it, making the causal and constitutive claims conflated in the original argument.

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    Causal claim(the main subject being evaluated in the statement)
    A statement that says one thing directly causes or makes another thing happen, rather than just happening at the same time.
    Conflated(as used in logic and argumentation)
    Mixing up two different things or treating them as if they're the same when they're actually distinct.
    Constitutive condition(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of language)
    A requirement that is essential and necessary—something that must be present for something else to actually exist or be what it is.
    Flourishing(the positive state that might be prevented by MPS)
    A state of living well and reaching your full potential as a person; achieving excellence in how you live.

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