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    It is not the case that The Prābhākara Mīmāṃsakas held that inferential knowledge arises from structural relations between cognitions, not from the agent's motivational orientation toward the conclusion.

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    • 1.Inferential knowledge requires cognitive agency; an agent must actively construct or recognize the inferential relation intentionally.
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    • 2.Motivation and interest directedness shape which inferences an agent attends to and validates as knowledge versus mere speculation.
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    • 3.Structural relations alone cannot explain why some cognitions count as warranted inferences while others remain mere associations.
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    • 1.Inference requires logical necessity between premises and conclusion, independent of what an agent desires to believe.
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    • 2.Motivational states are subjective and variable; they cannot ground objective logical relations that should be universal.
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    • 3.Structural relations between cognitions (e.g., middle term's connection to major and minor terms) are epistemically prior to inference.
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