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    Challenges→The practical intellect and the will are not separate powers, but one power with two separate acts

    If practical intellect and will were one power with two acts, akrasia would be inexplicable, since knowing the right act and failing to will it would require no transition between distinct powers.

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    One power with two acts(as used in metaphysics and philosophy of mind)
    The idea that practical intellect and will are really the same single ability, just showing up in two different ways.
    Transition between distinct powers(as used in philosophy of mind)
    A shift or change that happens when two completely separate abilities interact with each other.
    akrasia(Used to motivate the pluralism debate: pluralists claim only pluralism can adequately explain this phenomenon.)
    Weakness of will; the condition in which an agent knowingly chooses a less good option over a better one.
    inexplicable(as used in general philosophical reasoning)
    Impossible to explain or account for logically; something that shouldn't be able to happen given what we think we know.
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    (Positioned as a necessary, though subordinate, contributor to the attainment of intellectual perfection.)
    The faculty responsible for acts generated by volition and choice, as distinct from the theoretical intellect; it governs human will and deliberate action.
    will(Herbart's practical philosophy; distinguished from mere desire by cognitive determinacy and belief in attainability)
    A species of desire marked by determinate cognition and fixing of its object, combined with conviction that the object is attainable

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