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    It is not the case that Anscombe's account in 'Intention' grounds action in the agent's knowledge under a description, not in the causal history of the behavior's production.

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    • 1.Grounding action in descriptions alone risks making intention too mentalistic, untethered from the actual world and causal processes that realize it.
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    • 2.Distinguishing intentional from unintentional action requires some reference to how the behavior was actually produced, not just how it's described.
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    • 3.An agent's description of their action can be false or self-deceived; causal facts about behavior provide objective constraints on valid descriptions.
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    • 1.Intentions are essentially characterized by how agents conceive their actions, not mechanical causation, making descriptions constitutive of intention.
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    • 2.A causal history account struggles to distinguish intentional action from mere bodily movement or unintended side effects of deliberate acts.
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    • 3.Anscombe's framework explains why an agent can know their action without empirical observation, through practical knowledge of their own intention.
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