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    It is not the case that If appetite merely tracks a perceived good rather than being indifferent to goodness, the Platonic partition thesis overstates the soul's division.

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    • 1.Appetite's perception of good-for-me differs categorically from reason's perception of the truly good—distinguishing pursuit from understanding.
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    • 2.Soul partition explains why appetite can resist and override rational judgment despite both pursuing 'a' good—they're genuinely opposed forces.
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    • 3.Goodness-tracking doesn't eliminate division; appetite tracks apparent goods while reason tracks real goods, creating structural soul opposition.
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    • 1.Appetite necessarily evaluates its objects as good-for-me, making it inherently responsive to perceived value rather than purely mechanical.
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    • 2.If appetite tracked goodness, conflict between appetite and reason would be rational disagreement about the good, not partition of soul.
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    • 3.Plato's tripartite soul requires appetitive indifference to goodness to justify why appetite resists rational persuasion about true goods.
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