Human capabilities cannot substitute for one another in any quantity

Evidence

The Aristotelian essentialist claims that a life that lacks any one of these [capabilities], no matter what else it has, will be lacking humanness… . The list is, emphatically, a list of separate components. We cannot satisfy the need for one of them by giving a larger amount of another one. (1992, 222) Her conceptualization of a human being uses the basic three-level framework common in complex, multidimensional concepts. — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts, 91

The Aristotelian essentialist claims that a life that lacks any one of these [capabilities], no matter what else it has, will be lacking humanness… . The list is, emphatically, a list of separate components. We cannot satisfy the need for one of them by giving a larger amount of another one. (1992, 222) Her conceptualization of a human being uses the basic three-level framework common in complex, multidimensional concepts. — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts, 152

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the core structural move of the capabilities framework: a non-fungible, irreducibly plural list rather than a single metric.
• XREF: Connects to welfare-economics debates about compensating one deprivation with extra income, and to Sen-style capability approaches in development policy.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts: A User’s Guide…, 91; Gary Goertz, Social Science Concepts: A User’s Guide, 152