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

    If rational agents routinely compartmentalize intentions within larger plans without consistency requirements across all plan-components, the irrationality charge Bratman levels does not follow from the Simple View alone.

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    Key Terms

    Bratman(the philosopher being discussed)
    Michael Bratman is a contemporary philosopher who developed an influential theory about how humans form and act on intentions and plans.
    Compartmentalize(describes how agents organize their intentions)
    To keep different thoughts, plans, or intentions separate from each other, treating them as independent rather than connected.
    Consistency requirements(whether intentions need to align across all parts of a plan)
    Rules stating that different beliefs or plans shouldn't contradict each other—if you believe something, everything else you believe should fit with it logically.
    Intentions(part of the mental life that defines a person's character)
    Plans or purposes you have in mind—what you're trying to do or accomplish.
    Irrationality charge

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    (what Bratman claims follows from compartmentalizing intentions)
    An accusation or argument that someone is being irrational—acting in a way that violates the rules of logical thinking.
    rational agents(Reid's account of autonomous action)
    Beings who can gain critical distance from mechanical and animal incentives and regulate their conduct by appeal to rational principles of action.
    the Simple View(Term coined by Bratman (1987, p. 112))
    The view that doing A intentionally requires an intention whose object is doing A

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