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    Challenges→Williams' view is an Actual State internalism, not a Counterfactual Motivation internalism

    If the reasons-grounding state is the desire the agent would have after full information and coherent deliberation, the view is functionally equivalent to a Counterfactual Motivation account.

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    Key Terms

    Counterfactual Motivation account(in philosophy of action and metaethics)
    A theory that explains what someone *really* wants by imagining what they would choose if they had perfect information and thought it through carefully.
    Full information(a hypothetical condition where someone knows everything needed to make a perfect judgment)
    Having complete knowledge of all the relevant facts and evidence about a topic, with nothing hidden or unknown.
    coherent deliberation(in epistemology and ethics)
    Thinking through a decision in a logical, consistent way without contradicting yourself.
    counterfactual(Modal logic and epistemology)
    A conditional statement concerning what would be the case if some antecedent condition were true, evaluated across possible worlds; contraposition does not hold in general for counterfactuals.

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    functionally equivalent(as used in philosophy of mind and metaphysics)
    Two things that work the same way or produce the same results, even if they're different in other ways.
    grounding(Drawn from contemporary metaphysics; proposed as potentially applicable to understanding the foundations of legality.)
    A metaphysical relation in which some entities or facts are more foundational than others, providing a hierarchical structure of the world.
    reasons-grounding state(in debates about what motivates us to act)
    The underlying fact or condition that actually explains why someone has a reason to do something—basically, what makes a reason a real reason.

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