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    It is not the case that G.A. Cohen demonstrated that self-ownership, even if internally coherent, underdetermines the rights libertarians derive from it without substantive assumptions about world-ownership.

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    • 1.Self-ownership logically entails rights over one's labor; labor rights extend to products of labor by basic logical connection, not additional assumptions.
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    • 2.World-ownership assumptions are conceptually distinct from self-ownership and may be defended on independent grounds, not parasitic on self-ownership arguments.
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    • 3.Cohen conflates underdetermination of *all possible* distributions with underdetermination of *libertarian rights specifically*, which aren't equivalent claims.
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    • 1.Self-ownership alone cannot specify property rights without assumptions about resource distribution, initial acquisition, or ownership transfer rules.
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    • 2.Libertarians moving from self-ownership to homesteading rights smuggle in undefended premises about nature's status and labor's claim-generating power.
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    • 3.Cohen's argument reveals that coherent self-ownership is compatible with socialist and egalitarian conclusions, not just libertarian ones.
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