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    Supports→Consequentialism cannot properly recognize the value of friendship

    This justification makes friendship's value contingent on empirical facts about aggregate welfare, meaning friendship would be abandoned whenever impartial calculation demanded it.

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    Aggregate welfare(what consequentialist ethics prioritizes (competing with agent-relative restrictions))
    The total well-being or happiness of everyone combined, added up together as one sum.
    Impartial calculation(the type of reasoning Williams says threatens integrity)
    Making decisions by weighing outcomes fairly for everyone involved, without favoring any particular person—the idea that a moral choice is right if it produces the best overall results.
    contingent(De Interpretatione 12–13)
    Equated with 'possible'; on the two-sided interpretation, contingency excludes necessity (possibility implies non-necessity).
    empirical facts(epistemology)
    Information that comes from direct observation or experience in the real world, rather than from pure reasoning or imagination.

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    justification(Third condition of the tripartite account of knowledge)
    The condition on a knower's belief that excludes mere luck — the belief must be held in a way that is appropriate or warranted, not merely accidentally correct.

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