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    Supports→Following the Neo-Confucian reading of Wang Yangming, moral knowledge and moral action are unified in the cultivated person, making apparent conflicts symptoms of insufficient virtue rather than structural features of the framework.

    If moral knowledge is genuine understanding of the good, one who truly grasps it would naturally act accordingly; failure indicates incomplete knowledge, not framework flaw.

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    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.

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