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    It is not the case that Sen's capability approach and Rawlsian contractualism both generate inequality assessments that are decomposable yet explicitly reject the individualist independence assumptions Argument 1 attributes to separability.

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    • 1.Rawls's primary goods remain individuated by person, making decomposition effectively rely on the separability Argument 1 targets.
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    • 2.Sen's capability approach still aggregates functionings across persons individually before interpersonal comparison, smuggling in latent independence assumptions.
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    • 3.Claiming decomposability while rejecting separability requires showing how to partition inequality measurements that genuinely embed non-additive relational terms—both theories lack this rigor.
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    • 1.Sen and Rawls both require evaluating distributions holistically: capabilities/primary goods reflect relational circumstances, not isolated individual endowments.
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    • 2.Both frameworks explicitly ground inequality assessment in social cooperation and mutual advantage, rejecting purely additive utility separability.
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    • 3.Decomposability (breaking inequality into components) is compatible with rejecting independence: structure can be analyzed without assuming individual utilities are independent.
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