Wilt Chamberlain argument

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  • Robert Nozick
    In Robert Nozick: The entitlement theory of justice of Robert Nozick

    …be known as the “Wilt Chamberlain” argument. Assume, he says, that the distribution of holdings in a given society is just according to some theory based on patterns or historical circumstances—e.g., the egalitarian theory, according to which only a strictly equal distribution of holdings is just. In this society,…

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