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    It is not the case that Genuine willing requires determinate cognition of the object and conviction that the object is attainable

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    • 1.Frankfurt's cases of willing under uncertainty demonstrate agents genuinely will outcomes they assign non-trivial probability of failure.
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    • 2.A mountaineer who wills to summit Everest knowing death is likely satisfies no 'attainability conviction' yet exhibits paradigmatic willing.
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    • 3.The Herbartian criterion conflates the psychological structure of willing with the epistemic conditions of deliberation, collapsing two distinct phenomena.
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    • 1.Sartre's analysis shows willing can precede and constitute its object rather than require a pre-given determinate cognition of it.
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    • 2.In radical choice, the agent wills under ontological indeterminacy, creating the object's meaning through the act of choosing itself.
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    • 1.Desire becomes will only when the object is determinately cognized and fixed
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    • 2.One cannot will what one believes to be unattainable — for example, leaping tall buildings is desirable but not willable
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