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    It is not the case that Weak or uneducated people, children, and animals cannot be expected to mark their inner conditions

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    • 1.Piaget and subsequent developmental psychologists demonstrate that children possess progressive metacognitive capacities from early childhood, not a binary absence.
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    • 2.The supporting argument conflates the threshold for full self-control with the threshold for any inner perception, making it an invalid inference.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of akrasia presupposes that weakness of will coexists with genuine awareness of one's own states, not blindness to them.
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    • 2.If weak-willed agents can perceive their inner conditions while failing to resist them, then lack of self-control is not evidence of lacking inner perception.
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    • 1.Inner perception requires a capacity to notice and resist incipient impulses
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    • 2.Weak or uneducated people, children, and animals lack the developed capacity for self-control that inner perception requires
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