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    It is not the case that The rate of inhibition and dimming of mental representations decreases over time.

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    • 1.Herbart's model assumes inhibitory forces decrease monotonically, but threshold dynamics in neural systems exhibit non-linear rebound effects.
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    • 2.When inhibitory pressure drops below a critical threshold, suppressed representations can resurge, accelerating rather than decelerating inhibition of rival ideas.
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    • 3.William James's account of the stream of consciousness shows that competing ideas often intensify rivalry as dominant representations weaken, not diminish it.
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    • 1.Leibniz's doctrine of petit perceptions establishes that sub-threshold representations retain active striving even without conscious expression.
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    • 2.If dimmed representations retain their original force as Leibniz's framework implies, the conflicting activity between a and b need not decrease as S_n falls.
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    • 3.A constant underlying force between representations entails that the rate of inhibition remains stable or increases, contradicting Herbart's decreasing-rate claim.
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    • 1.As S_n falls, the conflicting activity of the forces a and b decreases.
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    • 2.As the conflicting activity of a and b decreases, the inhibitory pressure a and b exert on each other also decreases.
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    • 3.Inhibitory pressure drives the rate of dimming.
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