absolute priority
collocation in Englishmeaningsofabsoluteandpriority
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absolute
adjective
uk/ˈæb.sə.luːt/us/ˈæb.sə.luːt/
very great or to the largest ...
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priority
noun[C or U]
uk/praɪˈɒr.ə.ti/us/praɪˈɔːr.ə.t̬i/
something that is very important and must be dealt with before ...
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(Definition ofabsoluteandpriorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theabsolutepriorityview favours giving the worst off person a chocolate over alleviating the serious pain of a thousand others.
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It is the average level of this group that should receiveabsolutepriority; only, he did not define the worst-off group precisely.
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In the terminology introduced earlier, he claims that the wellbeing pair 1,98 hasabsolutepriorityto the worse off.
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In order to promote equality, we have to assignabsolutepriorityto the worst off in all these cases.
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I believe most people find it much harder to assignabsolutepriorityto the worst off if both live in destitution.
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Maybe some readers find non-aggregation equally implausible as assigningabsolutepriorityto the worse off.
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Do we still have to giveabsolutepriorityto the worst-off if we are to promote equality?
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The objection seems to show that, although we might give greater priority to helping the very worst-off, we do not give itabsolutepriority.
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Givesabsolutepriorityto people below an absolute threshold.
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In particular, in two-person cases more generally, we have to assignabsolutepriorityto people in absolute poverty in conflicts with people living in affluence.
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Instead, individuals below the mean are givenabsolutepriorityover individuals above the mean.
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I suggest that, in trying to avoidabsolutepriority, the derivatively egalitarian priority views presented in the previous sections combine individualism and utilitarian anti-individualism.
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This claim is much weaker than the implausible, and extremely strong, claim (of leximin) that any worse-off person hasabsolutepriorityover any better-off person.
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In these situations, we contribute both to equality promotion and alleviation of suffering by givingabsolutepriorityto the worse off.
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