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    It is not the case that Volitions and actions also cannot be contrary to truth and reason.

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    • 1.Practical reason can generate categorical imperatives that actions either conform to or violate, making actions rationally assessable as such.
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    • 2.Kant's Formula of Universal Law shows that maxims underlying actions can be self-contradictory, meaning the will itself can contradict reason.
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    • 3.If a volition rests on a maxim that cannot be universalized without logical contradiction, that volition is contrary to reason in a non-trivial sense.
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    • 1.Hume's own account allows that passions can be 'unreasonable' when founded on false beliefs about means-end relations or the existence of objects.
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    • 2.If volitions systematically depend on such false beliefs about the world, they inherit the irrationality of those beliefs rather than being fully insulated from it.
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    • 3.This internal concession in Hume undermines the clean separation between passion-like states and rational assessment that the original argument requires.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Passions cannot be contrary to truth and reason because they are original existences, not copies of objects.
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    • 2.Volitions and actions, like passions, are not ideas or mental copies of objects.
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    • 3.Contradiction to truth and reason applies only to ideas considered as copies of objects.
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