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    It is not the case that Behavior caused by beliefs and desires in a deviant causal chain is not an action but mere behavior.

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    • 1.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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    • 2.If the agent can give the behavior as intentional under some description and that description matches the operative belief-desire pair, the causal pathway's deviance does not strip the behavior of action-status.
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    • 3.Davidson's own criterion of 'the right way' remains unspecified, making deviance a placeholder that conceals rather than resolves the problem of action individuation.
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    • 1.Rationalization is neither necessary nor sufficient for action, as Frankfurt's hierarchical mesh theory shows agency requires identification with motivating states, not causal pathway type.
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    • 2.An agent who endorses and wholeheartedly identifies with the beliefs and desires that produced behavior acts, even if the causal route was unusual or 'deviant' by standard criteria.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.For behavior to constitute action, it must be caused by the agent's beliefs and desires in the right way.
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    • 2.A deviant causal chain occurs when beliefs and desires cause behavior that is not rationalized by those states.
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    • 3.Behavior caused via a deviant causal chain is not rationalized by the beliefs and desires that caused it.
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