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    Challenges→The cause of defective characters pursuing worthless ends lies in the training of their passions, not in an impairment of their capacity to reason.

    Practical reasoning itself can be structurally impaired: akratic agents suffer a failure to apply known principles, not merely misdirected passion.

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    • 1.Akratic agents can articulate their principles clearly yet fail to apply them, suggesting defective reasoning architecture, not mere desire.
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    • 2.Structural impairment explains why willpower depletion affects principle-application uniformly across different motivational contexts.
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    • 3.Cognitive load and attention failures demonstrably interfere with logical inference; akrasia shows similar domain-general impairment patterns.
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    • 1.Akratic behavior correlates precisely with competing desires; invoking structural impairment adds explanatory layers without empirical necessity.
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    • 2.Even 'structural' failures in applying principles reduce to prioritization between goals—a motivational, not architectural, distinction.
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    • 3.The claim conflates performance error with competence defect; temporary application failures don't show reasoning structure is impaired.
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