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Cooperation among heterogeneous participants can generate shared outcomes amid distinct, partly overlapping ways of valuing those outcomes. This paper investigates the philosophical conditions under which contributions become substantively co-creative across plural evaluative practices, including cases in which participants coordinate through local agreements while preserving different horizons of significance. Drawing selectively on value pluralism, generative justice, institutional governance, and theories of recognition and structural responsibility, it proposes a provisional generative-relational analysis distinguishing enabling conditions, co-creative participation, valuation practices, and normative legitimacy. Attention is given to the interpretation and attribution of contributions, power over their conversion and circulation, the return of generated capacities, differentiated responsibilities, and the reproduction of conditions for further value generation. Human communities, ecological relations, institutional arrangements, and artificial tools motivate distinct questions of participation and responsibility; the analysis leaves questions of subjective experience and moral standing open. Constructed cases serve to clarify the proposed distinctions, with an explicit comparative design for assessing incremental explanatory usefulness against established accounts. The paper is an exploratory philosophical inquiry rather than an empirical validation of a general model.
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