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he employs. Afterward I presented his account of incontinence, highlighting the four solutions
that he advances and emphasizing on the last one, due to its psychological implications. In the
end of the paper I tried to construct a minor analogy between Aristotle and Ainslie, namely
between Aristotle's fourth solution and the concept of hyperbolic discounting.
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