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    Challenges→Opponents of Bergson and Samuelson misunderstood their position rather than successfully refuting it.

    Samuelson's response that the social welfare function merely reflects an ethical observer's value judgments concedes that the framework imports normative content that ordinal preferences alone cannot supply.

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    Key Terms

    Ethical observer(in normative ethics)
    An imaginary neutral person who makes judgments about what is right and wrong based on some set of values or principles.
    Normative content(in philosophy)
    Information or claims about how things *should* be or what people *ought* to do, as opposed to just describing what is actually happening.
    Ordinal preferences(in economics)
    A ranking of choices from most-liked to least-liked (like saying you prefer A over B over C), which only tells us the order but not how much better one option is than another.
    Samuelson(as a reference to a specific economist's ideas)
    Paul Samuelson was a famous 20th-century economist who developed important theories about how people make choices and what we can learn from their preferences.
    Social welfare function

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    (in economics and ethics)
    A mathematical tool that tries to measure the overall well-being or happiness of a society by combining what different people want or prefer.
    value judgments(Normative theory of value judgments)
    Appraisals whose function is to constitute new valuings that solve the individual's predicament

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