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    It is not the case that A disposition to be motivated by beliefs about reasons cannot establish that a consideration R is itself a genuine reason for an agent to act.

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    • 1.A disposition to be motivated by beliefs about reasons can explain why a consideration R motivates an agent once he believes it is a reason to act.
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    • 2.For R to be a genuine reason for an agent to act, R itself must be a genuine explanation of the agent's acting.
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    • 3.A disposition triggered by the belief that R is a reason — rather than by R itself — means R is not the genuine explanation of the action.
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    • 1.Bernard Williams argued that genuine reasons must connect to an agent's subjective motivational set (SMS), not merely to beliefs about normative facts.
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    • 2.A disposition triggered by believing R is a reason operates independently of whether R actually figures in the agent's SMS.
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    • 3.Therefore, the dispositional mechanism bypasses the very internal grounding that Williams identifies as constitutive of genuine reasons.
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    • 1.Parfit's distinction between object-given and state-given reasons entails that genuine reasons are grounded in features of R itself, not in attitudes toward R.
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    • 2.A disposition to act on beliefs about reasons is itself a state-given motivation — it responds to the mental state of believing, not to R's object-level features.
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    • 3.A consideration that motivates only through a state-given route lacks the object-given grounding required for it to count as a genuine normative reason.
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