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No, a utility function is a perfectly well-defined mathematical object. The question is what it means for a human to "have" such an object; so "have" is the word we should be tabooing.
Does Abraham Lincoln have a six-dimensional vector space? Does Spain have an abelian group? The question "do humans have a bounded utility function" is kind of like that.
"Does Abraham Lincoln have a personality?" would be somewhat analogous. (By somewhat I mean 'more'.)
I'd personally phrase the answer more as 'yes, but it's actually 5-dimensional' :)