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    Challenges→Capability sets may include freedoms that are conditional on the choices of other people, and therefore individual capability sets alone are insufficient as a measure of effective freedom.

    Two spouses may each individually possess the capability of holding a demanding job incompatible with extensive caring responsibilities, yet if both have significant care obligations, at most one can effectively realize that capability.

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    capability(Sarvāstivāda-Vaibhāṣika Abhidharma metaphysics)
    A dharma's causal function of generating effects in dharmas outside its own consciousness series; also called vertical causality. Explains the causal efficacy of past dharmas.
    care obligations(as used in ethics and philosophy of family)
    Responsibilities to look after and support another person, like caring for children, elderly parents, or a spouse.
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    (as used to mean doing something well or successfully)
    In a way that actually works or succeeds; in a way that produces real results.
    incompatible(as used to describe conflicting demands or responsibilities)
    Unable to exist or work together at the same time; conflicting with each other.
    realize (a capability)(as used in philosophy of action and potential)
    To actually do or achieve something you're capable of doing; to turn potential into reality.

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    Third, there are cases in which a capability is available to a person but only if other people do not also want to realize that capability (Basu 1987: 74). For example, two spouses may each have the capability of holding demanding jobs which are each on their own incompatible with large caring responsibilities. However, if these spouses also have infants or relatives with extensive care needs, then at best only one of them may effectively realize that capability. Since capability sets may theref

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