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    Challenges→The indeterminacy of ownership in positive law poses no objection to self-ownership theory

    If the analogy to general ownership is invoked to rescue self-ownership from indeterminacy, the same contested bundle-of-rights structure reappears at the level of world-ownership.

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    World-ownership(as an assumption needed to complete libertarian ideas)
    A theory about who owns natural resources, land, and the physical world—a question about whether things belong to individuals, everyone collectively, or nobody initially.
    analogy(Contrasted with homology, which concerns correspondence due to common ancestry.)
    A relation based on functional similarity between structures, which can occur despite different evolutionary origins.
    bundle-of-rights structure(as used in property and legal philosophy)
    The idea that ownership isn't just one simple thing, but rather a collection of different permissions and powers (like the right to use something, sell it, rent it, etc.).
    indeterminacy(Decision-making under uncertainty in political and legal contexts)
    Uncertainty or lack of definite knowledge afflicting one or more conditions of a decision procedure, making it impossible to fully specify choices and their outcomes

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    self-ownership(Nozick's libertarian argument against taxation)
    The thesis that people own themselves and hence their talents, and therefore own whatever they can produce with those talents.

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