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No, it's not, because it is not even talking about a utility function with more than one input. It is talking about two completely seperate utility functions. A single utility function with multiple inputs has to include a scaling between the inputs and therefore is not described by Stuart's argument, which exploits the lack of such scaling between two seperate utility functions.