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    It is not the case that Conscience is the conclusion of a practical syllogism

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    • 1.Conscience involves affective and volitional dimensions that syllogistic form, which is purely cognitive, cannot capture.
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    • 2.Aquinas himself distinguishes conscientia as an act of application from synderesis as habit, suggesting conscience is not merely a logical conclusion but an experiential binding of the will.
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    • 3.Bernard of Clairvaux and Bonaventure locate conscience in the affective apex of the soul, making its authority irreducible to inferential validity.
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    • 1.The practical syllogism model requires that conscience inherit its binding force from the major premise, yet erroneous conscience binds even when the major premise is false, which no valid deductive conclusion can do.
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    • 2.Abelard's emphasis on intentio shows that moral weight attaches to the sincere act of conscientious judgment itself, not to its syllogistic correctness, undermining the deductive model's normative priority.
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    • 1.Practical reasoning generally takes a deductive form analogous to speculative reasoning
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    • 2.Just as science is the conclusion of a demonstrative syllogism, practical reasoning yields a parallel conclusion
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    • 3.The practical syllogism contains a major premise drawn from synderesis, a minor premise drawn from faith, natural reason, or human positive law, and a conclusion
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