If reflection were sufficient for rights by necessity, severely cognitively impaired humans would lose rights while sophisticated AI systems would gain them—a reductio most rights theories reject.

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By necessity(in modal logic): Something that must be true in all cases, without exception, rather than just happening to be true sometimes.
Cognitively impaired(as used in philosophy of mind and bioethics): Having a reduced ability to think, remember, reason, or understand due to illness, injury, or developmental differences.
Rights(as what the theory aims to explain): Protections or entitlements that people (or groups) have—things others must respect or provide, like freedom of speech or the right to education.
reductio(as used in logic): Short for 'reductio ad absurdum'—a way of proving something is wrong by showing that believing it leads to ridiculous or impossible conclusions.
reflection(Locke's epistemology; distinguished from sensation as a second source of ideas): An introspective kind of perceptual experience through which humans gain ideas of their own nature and faculties
rights theories(as used in ethics and political philosophy): Philosophical frameworks that try to explain what rights are, who has them, and why—essentially different ways of thinking about fairness and entitlements.

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