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    It is not the case that In a Bratman case, the agent's actions are driven by intentions to try to perform each action rather than intentions to perform each action outright

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    • 1.Davidson's account of intention-in-action holds that the proximate cause of action is an all-out judgment that one should act, not a hedged intention to try.
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    • 2.If intentions to try were the operative causal driver, akratic action would be impossible, yet akrasia demonstrably occurs when agents act against their all-out evaluative judgments.
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    • 3.Therefore the causal role attributed to 'intentions to try' conflates the deliberative stage with the executive stage of intentional action.
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    • 1.Bratman himself argues that intentions are future-directed plans, not merely attempts, and that plan-intentions guide action through practical reasoning toward completion.
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    • 2.An agent who forms a plan-intention to φ is committed to φ-ing outright, not merely to trying, since trying without commitment to success fails to constitute genuine planning.
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    • 1.In a Bratman case, the agent merely intends to try to φ and intends to try to Θ
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    • 2.These intentions to try are what causally drive the agent's actions
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