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    Obedience to the principle of continence is a necessary c... — Carmelics
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    Supports→The incontinent agent exhibits a defect in rationality.

    Obedience to the principle of continence is a necessary condition for rationality.

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    What should we say about an agent who does this? Returning to the three features of prima facie or PF judgments which we noted earlier, features (a) and (b) hold even of the special subclass of PF judgments which are ATC judgments. Such judgments neither are equivalent to, nor logically imply, any AO judgment. So the incontinent agent who fails to draw the AO conclusion which corresponds to his ATC conclusion, and to perform the corresponding action, is not committing “a simple logical blu

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