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A note on a note on practical syllogisms

✍ Scribed by Georg Hendrik Wright

Publisher
Springer
Year
1979
Tongue
English
Weight
118 KB
Volume
14
Category
Article
ISSN
1876-2514

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✦ Synopsis

In his Note Dr Beckermann questions the adequacy and validity of the practical inference schema (PS) as a model of intentionalist explanations of action. He raises three critical points. I shall deal with them in a slightly different order from the one adopted by Beckermann.

On p. 351 he writes:

9 if we want to explain a single action it is not only this action that is at issue but the whole course of all actions which are necessary and sufficient to bring about p.

Only if A believes that he is able to perform all actions of this course will he also set himself to perform each single one.

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