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    It is not the case that If synderesis were a potentiality, it could fail to incline toward good, but Aquinas explicitly denies synderesis ever errs or is extinguished.

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    • 1.If synderesis is actualized in cognition, it seems epistemically subject to the same errors as other intellectual habits.
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    • 2.Psychopaths and moral agents with inverted values seem empirically to lack synderesis's inclinatory force, contradicting infallibility.
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    • 3.Distinguishing synderesis (inerrantly right) from practical reason (fallible) creates an explanatory gap Aquinas doesn't adequately bridge.
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    • 1.Synderesis as innate habitus (not potentiality) explains why it's inerrantly oriented to good without requiring actualization.
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    • 2.If synderesis could fail, practical reasoning would lack a stable first principle, making moral knowledge impossible.
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    • 3.Aquinas's denial of synderesis's failure parallels divine immutability—a necessary anchor for objective moral truth.
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