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    It is not the case that Pragmatic consequentializing derives its normative authority from the act-consequentialist counterpart theories it constructs, making their implausibility self-undermining.

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    • 1.Pragmatic consequentialism can derive authority from its own success in guiding action, not merely from theoretical counterparts it acknowledges as ideal but unrealistic.
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    • 2.Many successful theories explicitly rely on idealized versions they reject in practice; this is epistemically sound methodology, not self-undermining.
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    • 3.The claim conflates dependency on a theory with dependency on its plausibility—pragmatism may value what act-consequentialism aims at without endorsing its implausible demands.
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    • 1.If pragmatic consequentialism borrows authority from act-consequentialism, it inherits act-consequentialism's well-known problems like demandingness and agent-centered limitations.
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    • 2.Theories that depend on implausible counterparts for their justification are architecturally unstable and lack independent normative grounding.
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    • 3.Pragmatic consequentialism cannot escape these problems by appeal to practicality, since that undermines its claim to derive authority from act-consequentialist foundations.
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