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    It is not the case that Following the Neo-Confucian reading of Wang Yangming, moral knowledge and moral action are unified in the cultivated person, making apparent conflicts symptoms of insufficient virtue rather than structural features of the framework.

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    • 1.The claim is unfalsifiable: any counterexample becomes definitional proof of 'insufficient virtue,' making the framework immune to empirical challenge or meaningful testing.
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    • 2.Akrasia (weakness of will) appears structurally distinct from ignorance; someone can recognize a moral principle yet experience competing motivations that knowledge alone cannot resolve.
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    • 3.Institutional and structural injustices sometimes prevent moral action even when knowledge and virtue are present, suggesting conflicts aren't merely symptoms of individual insufficiency.
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    • 1.Empirically, exemplary individuals (sages, moral heroes) demonstrate unified knowledge-action; their apparent consistency supports the framework's coherence.
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    • 2.If moral knowledge is genuine understanding of the good, one who truly grasps it would naturally act accordingly; failure indicates incomplete knowledge, not framework flaw.
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    • 3.Attributing conflicts to insufficient virtue preserves the framework's internal logic while offering a realistic account of moral development as gradual cultivation.
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