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> I'm not understanding terminology like "patterned principle."

See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/askphilosophy/comments/34r4vg/endst...

This awkward terminology is something that infuriates me about Nozick.

Thank you! My math brain says I can define (I think) a pathological system that is both "patterned" and "non-patterned," and a bunch that are non-patterned but still result in equality given the right initial conditions, but these definitions aren't meant to be rigorous in that way, right? He's talking more about what's likely to be true given what we know of realistic human societies?

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