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    If Frankfurt is correct, belief-desire causation is neith... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Behavior caused by beliefs and desires is necessary but not sufficient for that behavior to count as action.

    If Frankfurt is correct, belief-desire causation is neither necessary nor sufficient for action, undermining the asymmetric sufficiency claim entirely.

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    • 1.Frankfurt's hierarchical model shows agents can act without first-order desires causing action if second-order volitions override them.
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    • 2.Cases of addiction demonstrate action despite conflicting desires, proving belief-desire causation insufficient for explaining voluntary action.
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    • 3.Neural pathways can trigger behavior without conscious belief-desire states, showing these mental states aren't necessary for action.
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    • 1.Frankfurt's counterexamples rely on intuitions about agency that conflate action with mere bodily movement, not genuine action causation.
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    • 2.Even hierarchical accounts ultimately ground action in causal relations between mental states; they refine rather than eliminate belief-desire causation.
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    • 3.The asymmetric sufficiency claim concerns intentional action specifically, and Frankfurt addresses only marginal cases failing to undermine the core thesis.
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