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    Supports→An agent F'ed at a given time because, at that time, the agent had a desire that represented F-ing, and not some other act, as worthwhile or otherwise attractive

    A desire represents a specific act (F-ing) as worthwhile or attractive, not merely any act

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    Many have felt that this position only lands Davidson (qua causalist) in deeper trouble. It is not simply that we suppose that states of having certain pro-attitudes and of having corresponding means-end beliefs are among the causes of our actions. We suppose further that the agent did what he did because the having of the pro-attitude and belief were states with (respectively) a conative and a cognitive nature, and even more importantly, they are psychological states with certain propositional

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