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    It is not the case that Although impressions are involuntary in the moment, they are subject to control in the long run through repeated assent and refusal.

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    • 1.Repeated assent shapes character only if the agent already possesses the rational self-governance that assent is supposed to produce, creating a vicious regress.
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    • 2.Aristotle's account of akrasia shows that habitual cognitive patterns can override deliberate rational assent, undermining the mechanism of long-run voluntary control.
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    • 3.If early impressions are involuntary and assent to them shapes future impressions, the initial conditions of character formation escape rational control entirely.
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    • 1.Contemporary neuroscience and Humean psychology establish that evaluative impressions are largely driven by affective processes that operate below the threshold of deliberate assent.
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    • 2.If the causal mechanism producing impressions is non-rational and sub-personal, then withholding assent addresses only the downstream symptom while leaving the generative cause intact.
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    • 1.If one keeps refusing to assent to the impression that wealth is good, wealth will eventually cease to appear as good.
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    • 2.One's character and opinions plausibly influence one's impressions, especially evaluative impressions and impressions requiring expertise.
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    • 3.Marcus states that one's mind will be of the same character as the impressions it entertains.
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