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    Supports→Practical judgment is genuinely creative, not merely a mechanical vector addition of pre-given weights.

    If choice merely reflected pre-given habitual priority weights, deliberation would be unnecessary.

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    One might still object that this is not enough to show that practical judgment is genuinely creative. Perhaps it just takes given prizings and determines the end through some kind of vector addition, taking their weights as given. If a man is out to buy a suit, for instance, he approaches the problem with a given set of habitual priorities — for example, that durability and cheapness are more important than style. The man’s choice of suit thus merely reflects the weights of the man’s already giv

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