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