If an agent's capacity to recognize good ends is itself impaired by factors outside voluntary control, then the knowledge involved in wisdom is not uniformly within the scope of the will.
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A subject's ability to make decisions, assessed by paradigm examples and the presence of necessary (and possibly sufficient) abilities.
impaired(as used to describe the strength or degree of a limitation)
Weakened or damaged, but not completely destroyed or non-functional.
knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.
wisdom(Contrasted explicitly with polymathy and raw sensory experience.)
Not the accumulation of sensory information, but the capacity to grasp how phenomena function as signs of the larger cosmic order.