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    Supports→Hadot's interpretation of Marcus's 'erase impressions' as 'assent only to objective physical descriptions' is more existentialist than Stoic.

    Hadot's 'physical descriptions' strip evaluative content before assent, making value a subjective bracketing act foreign to orthodox Stoic epistemology.

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    • 1.Hadot's bracketing procedure requires suspending judgments about good/bad, making value assignment a secondary voluntary act rather than immediate cognitive assent.
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    • 2.Orthodox Stoics treat value (axia) as ontologically objective and epistemically automatic upon rational perception, not as contingent subjective choices.
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    • 3.If Hadot's method requires deliberate value-bracketing before assent, it introduces a subjective filtering step incompatible with Stoic cognitive automaticity.
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    • 1.Stoic prohairesis (choice/assent) itself involves evaluative discrimination, suggesting value-judgments are never entirely pre-reflective or automatic in orthodox theory.
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    • 2.Hadot's 'physical descriptions' may simply clarify objective natural structure that Stoics already acknowledged as distinct from evaluative impression—not introduce subjectivity.
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    • 3.Bracketing evaluative *language* about impressions need not bracket the rational recognition of objective value-structure itself, preserving Stoic epistemology's objectivity.
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