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    It is not the case that Wang Yangming's doctrine of liangzhi demonstrates that moral and perceptual knowledge can be certain without requiring infinite comprehension.

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    • 1.Intuitive certainty and actual certainty differ; liangzhi's felt conviction doesn't guarantee freedom from error or self-deception.
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    • 2.Context-specific moral knowledge still requires understanding how principles apply across situations—a potentially infinite task.
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    • 3.Claiming self-validating knowledge risks circularity: the mind's authority cannot prove its own reliability without external standards.
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    • 1.Liangzhi operates as an immediate moral intuition that grasps rightness directly, bypassing the infinite regress problem of discursive reasoning.
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    • 2.Moral knowledge requires certainty about particular contexts, not omniscient comprehension of universal principles or all consequences.
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    • 3.The mind's inherent luminosity means moral perception can be self-validating without external infinite verification chains.
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