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    Challenges→A functioning is not equivalent to a capability, because a person may possess a capability without exercising it

    If capabilities require ongoing cultivation and practice to remain real options—as virtue ethics holds—then persistent non-exercise transforms a capability into a merely nominal one.

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    Capabilities(Capabilities approach)
    Real freedoms to achieve particular doings and beings, corrected for any potential impediments that would prevent their exercise
    Virtue ethics(in philosophy)
    An approach to ethics focused on developing good character traits (virtues like courage or honesty) rather than following rules or calculating outcomes.
    nominal(Hybrid modal logic syntax)
    A special propositional symbol in hybrid logic that is true at exactly one world in a model, used to name or refer to specific worlds.
    non-exercise(in describing how skills fade)
    The act of not using or practicing something over a period of time.
    real options(in discussions of freedom and ability)

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