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    It is not the case that The a priori argument for the strongest form of psychological egoism does not support the weak form that altruism is never pure.

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    • 1.The a priori argument for the strongest form of psychological egoism relies on two premises.
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    • 2.Those two premises are implausible.
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    • 1.The a priori argument for strongest psychological egoism defines desire-satisfaction as inherently self-interested, but this equivocates on 'self-interest' by conflating the self as subject of desire with the self as beneficiary.
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    • 2.Weak psychological egoism requires the empirical claim that no desire is ever purely other-directed, which cannot be established by definitional maneuvers alone.
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    • 3.Joseph Butler demonstrated that the mere fact an agent acts on their own desire does not make the object of that desire self-regarding, undermining any logical bridge between the two forms.
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    • 1.C.D. Broad distinguished self-love from self-interest, showing that logical derivations from motivational internalism do not automatically entail that all motivation is self-benefiting.
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    • 2.A valid deductive argument for the strongest form, if its premises are false or equivocal, provides zero inferential support for weaker claims that share those same problematic premises.
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