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    Challenges→A passion cannot be contrary to truth and reason.

    Hume's restriction of 'reason' to theoretical representation illicitly excludes practical rationality as a legitimate evaluative standard.

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    • 1.Practical reasoning about means-ends relationships involves evaluative standards (efficiency, coherence) distinct from theoretical representation.
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    • 2.Excluding practical rationality from evaluative standards leaves no rational basis for criticizing irrational action or incoherent preferences.
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    • 3.Agents demonstrably exercise rational judgment when deliberating about goals, not merely executing pre-given desires mechanically.
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    • 1.Hume's account of practical reason concerns instrumental rationality, which legitimately evaluates means; goals themselves remain desire-based, not rational.
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    • 2.Calling practical deliberation 'rational' conflates logical consistency with rationality proper; it obscures Hume's actual distinction between reason and passion.
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    • 3.Practical reason can be non-evaluative: reasoning about how to achieve desires needn't presuppose independent evaluative standards beyond desire satisfaction.
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