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    Challenges→When the value function is defined by the deontic verdicts rather than grounding them, the notational consequentialization preserves syntax but destroys the explanatory direction that makes consequentialism a substantive moral theory.

    Preserving syntax while allowing flexible explanatory direction increases theoretical flexibility rather than destroying it, enabling consequentialism to accommodate diverse moral intuitions.

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    Key Terms

    Accommodate(as used in disability rights and social justice)
    To adjust or modify something so that it works for someone's particular needs; for example, providing wheelchair ramps or sign language interpreters.
    Theoretical flexibility(in philosophy of theory and logic)
    How easily a theory can be adjusted, modified, or applied to different situations without falling apart or losing its core ideas.
    consequentialism(Applied to terrorism and legal punishment)
    The view that practices are judged solely by their consequences, such that a practice is wrong only if it has bad consequences on balance.
    moral intuitions(Metaethics discussion of intuitionism)
    Intellectual seemings — cognitive states in which certain moral propositions appear true to the subject
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    The form of expressions in general, encompassing phonology, morphology, and sentence structure

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