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    Challenges→A piecemeal analysis of individual opportunities is insufficient for evaluating a person's real freedom.

    If real freedom requires holistic combinatorial evaluation, then freedom becomes practically unassessable, since the number of potential functioning combinations grows exponentially with social complexity.

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    Key Terms

    Exponentially(as used in mathematics and chaos theory)
    Growing or increasing at an accelerating rate, like doubling again and again—so small differences become huge ones very quickly.
    Holistic(describing Kagan's method of evaluating value)
    An approach that focuses on the whole picture or complete situation rather than breaking things down into separate parts.
    combinatorial(as used in mathematics and logic)
    Relating to the different ways things can be combined or arranged together; the study of all possible combinations.
    evaluation(as used in the statement to mean assessing freedom)
    The process of carefully examining and assessing something to determine its value, quality, or meaning.
    freedom(Philip's theory of free action)

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    The capacity of a faculty to have acted otherwise than it did; primarily located in the will rather than the intellect.
    functioning(Capability approach; individual functionings are the components that combine into capability sets)
    A doing or being that a person can engage in, such as holding a job or caring for children, which reflects a basic need or moral duty.
    social complexity(as used to explain why evaluating freedom becomes harder)
    The complicated nature of society created by many interacting people, institutions, and factors that influence each other.

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