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    It is not the case that Forgiving is accomplished only when one successfully goes through both stages.

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    • 1.Jeffrie Murphy argues forgiveness is fundamentally an alteration of resentment alone, requiring no separate cognitive reassessment of the wrongdoer's character.
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    • 2.Collapsing emotional and cognitive stages into a single affective shift better explains cases where forgiveness feels sudden and complete without deliberate reappraisal.
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    • 1.Charles Griswold's account holds that forgiveness can be partial and graduated, meaning binary stage-completion misrepresents its essentially processual and revisable nature.
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    • 2.If forgiveness admits of degrees rather than discrete stages, then demanding completion of both stages sets an artificially high threshold that excludes paradigm cases of genuine forgiveness.
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    • 1.Forgiveness requires a change in emotion towards the wrongdoer.
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    • 2.Forgiveness requires an intentional alteration of one's assessments about the wrongdoer as a person.
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