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    It is not the case that Sen's theorem presupposes a welfarist framework where all normative considerations reduce to ordinal preference rankings across social states.

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    • 1.Sen explicitly critiqued welfarism and developed capability approach to transcend preference-based evaluation, contradicting the claim.
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    • 2.The theorem's formal structure doesn't entail normative welfarism; it merely models preference aggregation mathematically without endorsing it ethically.
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    • 3.Sen distinguished between individual preferences and social states to accommodate non-welfarist values like liberty, showing the framework's flexibility.
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    • 1.Sen's impossibility result derives from assuming preferences are the sole input to social choice, making welfarism explicit in the formal structure.
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    • 2.Sen's framework cannot accommodate non-preference values like rights or liberties without reducing them to preference satisfaction, confirming welfarist reduction.
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    • 3.The theorem's conclusion (no function satisfies all conditions) only obtains given ordinal preferences as exhaustive normative data.
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