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    It is not the case that Herbart's claim presupposes a quasi-substantial continuity of mental content that empiricist psychology explicitly rejects as metaphysical smuggling.

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    • 1.Continuity of mental content can derive from causal laws and functional relationships without positing quasi-substantial entities.
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    • 2.The distinction between 'empiricist' positions is internal; many empiricists accept dispositional or structural continuity without metaphysical substance.
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    • 3.Herbart's claims about representation may be empirically testable through psychological evidence, not purely metaphysical speculation requiring substance.
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    • 1.Herbart posits mental content persists as unified representations across time, requiring ontological substance beyond discrete sensory impressions.
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    • 2.Empiricists like Hume reject enduring mental entities, treating mind as bundles of momentary perceptions without underlying continuity.
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    • 3.Assuming mental content maintains identity presupposes metaphysical commitment to substance empiricists explicitly deny as unobservable.
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