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    The inhibition sum (S_n) continuously diminishes as time passes from the initial collision of mental representations a and b.

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    • 1.At t_0, the oppositional forces between representations a and b are at a maximum.
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    • 2.At each successive moment, a and b progressively inhibit and dim each other.
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    • 3.The combined dimmed portion (σ) increases as S_n decreases, meaning the inhibited amount of a and b grows over time.
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    • 1.Leibniz's doctrine of petites perceptions establishes that sub-threshold mental states retain independent causal force without being mutually annihilated by competing representations.
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    • 2.If representations preserve their striving even when inhibited below the limen of consciousness, the oppositional forces at t_0 are never genuinely diminished but merely masked, making S_n a measure of suppression rather than actual quantitative reduction.
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    • 3.A claim about diminishing inhibition sums conflates the phenomenological unavailability of a representation with its metaphysical extinction, a distinction Herbart's own Leibnizian commitments oblige him to maintain.
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    • 1.Herbart's model assumes inhibition proceeds monotonically, but empirical psychology (Fechner, Wundt) shows psychophysical processes exhibit non-linear thresholds and saturation effects.
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    • 2.If inhibition follows a logarithmic or sigmoid curve rather than continuous linear diminishment, S_n may plateau rather than continuously decrease, undermining the temporal monotonicity claim.
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    As we saw above, Herbart argues that from the instant at which a and b “collide” in consciousness, to the point of static equilibrium, a period of time must elapse. While at \(t_0\), the oppositional forces are at a maximum,[44] at \(t_1\) they will already have dimmed each other to an extent; at \(t_2\) this dimming will have progressed even further; etc. Herbart symbolizes the combined amount of the dimmed portion of a and b with “\(\sigma\)”.[45] Hence we can see that as time passes and a an
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