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    It is not the case that If the doxastic states in question admit of gradations rather than discrete types, the purported structural difference between accounts tracks a continuum, not a kind difference.

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    • 1.Continua can still support categorical distinctions at different levels of organization or analysis without contradiction.
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    • 2.Temperature is continuous but we validly distinguish liquids from gases; gradations don't eliminate kind differences.
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    • 3.The claim conflates metaphysical structure with epistemological measurement; functional kinds may transcend gradation properties.
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    • 1.Doxastic states like belief exhibit continuous degrees of confidence rather than binary on/off states in empirical psychology.
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    • 2.If a property varies continuously, structural distinctions based on that property must also vary continuously, not categorically.
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    • 3.Drawing kind differences from graded properties commits a false discretization fallacy, obscuring underlying continuities.
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