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    The values at stake in a choice situation cannot on their... — Carmelics
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    The values at stake in a choice situation cannot on their own determine how heavily they weigh in that particular choice situation.

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    • 1.Values weigh differently depending on the circumstances of the choice.
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    • 2.If values alone determined their own weightings, those weightings would be fixed regardless of circumstances.
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    • 1.Values carry internal relational structures that include sensitivity conditions specifying when and how strongly they apply.
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    • 2.If a value's own nature encodes the conditions of its applicability, then the value itself determines its weight in context.
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    • 3.Aristotle's account of the virtuous agent perceiving salient features of situations shows value-sensitivity emerging from the value's content, not external factors.
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    • 1.Ross's prima facie duties are not context-neutral abstractions but duty-types whose binding force is constitutively tied to the morally relevant features of situations.
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    • 2.If the morally relevant features that generate a duty are internal to the duty's nature, the duty's weight in a situation is determined by its own structure, not by something external to it.
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    There is a problem in understanding quite what a ‘synthesizing category’ or ‘covering value’ is. How does the covering value determine the relative weightings of the constituent values? One possibility is that it does it by pure stipulation—as a martini just is a certain proportion of gin and vermouth. However, stipulation does not have the right sort of explanatory power. On the other hand, if a view is to remain pluralist, it must avoid conflating the super scale with a super value. Chang arg
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