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    Physical capacity alone doesn't determine substantive fre... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Two persons with identical resources but different physical capacities achieve radically unequal substantive freedoms.

    Physical capacity alone doesn't determine substantive freedom—motivation, knowledge, and opportunity matter equally. Two healthy people with identical resources can achieve radically unequal outcomes.

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    Motivation(what makes people choose to do things)
    The desires, goals, or reasons that drive someone to act in a particular way.
    Physical capacity(as used in discussions of human capability)
    What your body can do—like having working legs, a healthy heart, or a functioning brain.
    Substantive freedom(as used in political philosophy and ethics)
    Real, meaningful freedom to actually do things you want—not just having the legal right to do them, but having the actual ability, knowledge, and circumstances to make it happen.
    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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    opportunity(Offered in contrast to a strong physicalist conception of opportunity that considers only the absence of physical barriers.)
    The possibility of doing X without facing physical encumbrances and without incurring excessive costs or the risk of such costs.

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