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    Challenges→Premise P3's claim that virtuous character differs from knowledge of forms relies on a post-Aristotelian distinction between intellectual and character virtues that Plato explicitly rejects through his intellectualist account of akrasia in Book IV.

    The claim conflates 'knowledge suffices for virtue' with 'knowledge is virtue's only component'—Plato permits embodied habituation as support for knowledge.

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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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