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    It is not the case that If agents can reliably identify the categorical imperative and bind their will to it, then misconstrual of genuine interests is not virtually inevitable but contingently corrigible.

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    • 1.Cognitive biases and self-interest systematically distort how agents perceive the categorical imperative, making reliable identification practically impossible.
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    • 2.The categorical imperative's formal abstraction creates persistent ambiguity in application, preventing consensus on what it actually demands in concrete cases.
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    • 3.Even with good faith efforts, agents lack sufficient epistemic access to their own motivations to definitively distinguish genuine from misconstrued interests.
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    • 1.Kant's categorical imperative provides a rational procedure independent of empirical desires, enabling agents to distinguish genuine from misconstrued interests.
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    • 2.Moral education and rational reflection can improve agents' ability to identify the categorical imperative, making errors corrigible rather than inevitable.
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    • 3.If misconstrual were virtually inevitable, moral responsibility and duty would be conceptually incoherent, yet these remain meaningful features of moral life.
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