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    This conflation risks inflating FEO's lexical weight beyo... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→FEO should be given high priority because it protects the opportunity to fulfill one's basic moral interest in developing and exercising a sense of justice.

    This conflation risks inflating FEO's lexical weight beyond what a well-ordered theory of justice can coherently sustain.

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    • 1.Theoretical parsimony requires limiting primitive concepts; FEO's multiple dimensions risk redundancy without clear foundational necessity.
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    • 2.Rawlsian justice as fairness prioritizes coherence; adding lexical weight to FEO without systematic derivation destabilizes the overall framework.
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    • 3.Inflated lexical weight for FEO may obscure trade-offs with other justice principles, preventing transparent normative reasoning.
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    • 1.Complex social phenomena cannot be adequately captured by minimalist vocabularies; FEO's richness reflects genuine conceptual distinctions.
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    • 2.Lexical weight assignment reflects moral importance, not theoretical excess; FEO's prominence in practice justifies its theoretical prominence.
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    • 3.Well-ordered theories require sufficient conceptual resources to address real injustices; restricting FEO's weight may leave harms untheorized.
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    Complex social phenomena cannot be adequately captured by minimalist vocabularie...FEO should be given high priority because it protects the opportunity to fulfill...Inflated lexical weight for FEO may obscure trade-offs with other justice princi...Lexical weight assignment reflects moral importance, not theoretical excess; FEO...
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    Rawlsian justice as fairness prioritizes coherence; adding lexical weight to FEO...Theoretical parsimony requires limiting primitive concepts; FEO's multiple dimen...Well-ordered theories require sufficient conceptual resources to address real in...

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