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    It is not the case that A reason grounded in what sound deliberation would yield is structurally counterfactual, since it invokes hypothetical rather than occurrent motivational states.

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    • 1.Sound deliberation itself requires actual motivational dispositions; it's not purely hypothetical but counterfactually dependent.
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    • 2.Reasons can ground in occurrent states (desires, beliefs) without requiring counterfactuals; normativity doesn't demand idealization.
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    • 3.The counterfactual structure may be epistemically useful but doesn't establish that reasons are themselves fundamentally counterfactual.
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    • 1.Sound deliberation describes idealized reasoning conditions that actual agents rarely meet, making it inherently counterfactual.
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    • 2.A reason's normative force depends on what rational agents would endorse, not what they actually do endorse.
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    • 3.Grounding reasons in hypothetical states avoids relativizing normativity to contingent psychological facts.
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