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    The human mind possesses both an understanding (reason) and a set of lower cognitive faculties for indistinct insight into the connections of things.

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    • 1.The human mind cognizes the interconnections of some things distinctly and of others indistinctly.
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    • 2.Having the capacity for both distinct and indistinct cognition entails possessing faculties suited to each mode.
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    • 3.Distinct insight into the connections of things constitutes reason (ratio).
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    • 1.Kant's Critique of Pure Reason demonstrates that sensibility and understanding are irreducibly distinct faculties with no common cognitive root.
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    • 2.If the faculties are irreducibly heterogeneous, no unified 'mind' can coherently possess both as graduated modes of a single cognitive capacity.
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    • 3.Baumgarten's schema of 'lower' versus 'higher' cognition illegitimately presupposes a scalar continuum between what are in fact categorically different epistemic operations.
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    • 1.Leibniz's own monadology entails that 'indistinct' perception is not a faculty but a privative condition of apperception, not a positive cognitive power.
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    • 2.If indistinctness is merely the absence of reflective clarity rather than a separate faculty's output, the argument's P4 attributes agency to a mere cognitive deficiency.
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    I cognize the interconnection of some things distinctly, and of others indistinctly, consequently I have the faculty for both. Consequently I have an understanding, for insight into the connections of things, that is, reason (ratio); and a faculty for indistinct insight into the connections of things, which consists of the following: 1) the sensible faculty for insight into the concordances among things, thus sensible wit; 2) the sensible faculty for cognizing the differences among things, thus
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