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

    If two functionings that individually appear available cannot be pursued together, then a piecemeal analysis overstates the person's real freedom.

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    Thus, according to the capability approach, the ends of well-being freedom, justice, and development should be conceptualized in terms of people’s capabilities. Moreover, what is relevant is not only which opportunities are open to me each by themselves, hence in a piecemeal way, but rather which combinations or sets of potential functionings are open to me. For example, suppose I am a low-skilled poor single parent who lives in a society without decent social provisions. Take the following func

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