The practical syllogism model requires that conscience inherit its binding force from the major premise, yet erroneous conscience binds even when the major premise is false, which no valid deductive conclusion can do.

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Valid deductive conclusion(as used in logic): A logical conclusion that *must* be true if all the starting statements (premises) are true—it's the opposite of guessing or assuming something might be true.
binding force(as used in ethics and law): The power to create a real obligation that people should follow, not just a suggestion.
conscience(Aquinas' account, distinguishing conscience from any special moral sense or indwelling presence): Not a special power or faculty within a person, but practical intelligence at work — primarily in the form of a stock of judgments about the reasonableness (rightness) or unreasonableness (wrongness) of kinds of action.
erroneous conscience(Aquinas's account of conscience): A conscience that is mistaken in its moral judgment, yet still carries binding moral authority over the agent

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