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    It is not the case that Scanlon's view systematically identifies and defends specific categories of prudential value, which meets the minimal threshold for theoretical status.

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    • 1.Scanlon's prudential value categories remain vague about their boundaries, making it unclear if they truly constitute distinct theoretical kinds.
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    • 2.Meeting a 'minimal threshold' for theory is not equivalent to successfully defending specific categories—coherence doesn't ensure correctness.
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    • 3.Scanlon's approach may simply organize pre-theoretical intuitions rather than discover principled categories with genuine theoretical explanatory power.
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    • 1.Scanlon explicitly distinguishes prudential value from moral value and other normative categories with systematic criteria.
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    • 2.A theory meets minimal theoretical status by articulating defensible principles that organize and explain a domain coherently.
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    • 3.Scanlon's framework generates testable implications about which goods constitute prudential value, demonstrating substantive theoretical content.
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