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    Challenges→Rawls's distributive justice framework must be expanded to include caring considerations as part of the basic structure of society

    If dependency needs generate structural revisions, then every morally significant human vulnerability would demand its own categorical inclusion, making the basic structure indeterminate.

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    Key Terms

    Categorical inclusion(as used in logic and ethics)
    Officially recognizing and including something as its own distinct category that deserves special attention or protection.
    Dependency needs(as used in ethics and political philosophy)
    Basic requirements that people have because they rely on others to survive and function—like needing food, shelter, or care when you're young or sick.
    Indeterminate(Reichenbach's three-valued quantum logic)
    The value of propositions that quantum theory implies cannot be assessed to be either true or false
    Morally significant(in ethics)
    Having real meaning and importance in terms of what is right and wrong; actions that matter ethically.
    Structural revisions(as used in political and social philosophy)

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    Changes to the fundamental rules and systems that organize society, like how laws work or how resources are distributed.
    Vulnerability(in bioethics and medical philosophy)
    A weakness, susceptibility, or predisposition to something harmful—for example, a genetic tendency toward heart disease.
    basic structure(Rawlsian political philosophy)
    The category of institutions that so pervasively influence people's lives as to demand special justification.

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