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    Supports→The Simple View must be rejected in order to avoid attributing irrational intentions to a rational agent in Bratman's bifurcated-strategy cases.

    Accepting the Simple View entails that an agent pursuing a bifurcated strategy intends to φ and also intends to Θ.

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    The simplest version of such an account depends on what Michael Bratman has dubbed “the Simple View.” This is the thesis that proposition (6) above, [The agent G'd intentionally] and, correspondingly, proposition (7) [The agent Fed with the intention of Ging] entail that, at the time of action, the agent intended to G. Surely, from the causalist point of view, the most natural account of Ging intentionally is that the action of Ging is governed by a present directed intention whose content for t

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