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Might There Be Other Criteria-In Addition to the Capacity to Suffer-That

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Might there be other criteria-in addition to the capacity to suffer-that would render something a moral patient? What else, in addition to sentience, might be relevant to that status?


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A proposed explanation for a phenomenon, made as a starting point for further investigation.

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A concept in the philosophy of science that asserts a hypothesis or theory should be testable and potentially disprovable by experimentation or observation.

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