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    It is not the case that If Humean association produces functional unity of representations, judgment is sufficient but not necessary for representational unification.

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    • 1.Association alone cannot distinguish unified representation from mere sequence; judgment provides this critical differentiation.
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    • 2.Functional unity requires constraint and normativity—features association cannot explain without invoking judgment-like principles.
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    • 3.Calling association 'sufficient' conflates psychological habituation with genuine representational unity requiring conceptual synthesis.
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    • 1.Hume demonstrated that custom and habit bind ideas into coherent patterns without conscious judgment intervening.
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    • 2.Functional unity—representations working together systematically—can occur through automatic association processes.
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    • 3.Judgment is a deliberate act requiring reflection, while associative unification operates pre-reflectively and primitively.
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