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    It is not the case that Internalism's necessary condition claim entails that agents with radically deviant desires (e.g., counting grass) can have reasons others lack, which is itself a counterintuitive result.

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    • 1.Why assume 'counterintuitiveness' tracks truth? Folk intuitions about reasons often reflect limited experience, not metaphysical reality.
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    • 2.Internalism's result—that grass-counters have grass-counting reasons—is actually coherent and defensible, not absurd on reflection.
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    • 3.Objectivity of reasons doesn't require uniformity across agents; agent-relative reasons can still be real and rationally binding.
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    • 1.Internalism makes reasons dependent on agent desires; grass-counting desires generate grass-counting reasons for that agent alone.
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    • 2.This consequence reveals internalism conflicts with our intuition that reasons are objective and shared across agents.
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    • 3.Counterintuitive results that follow necessarily from a theory's core commitments are evidence against that theory's truth.
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