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    It is irrational to intend to φ and intend to Θ while bel... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The Simple View is false.

    It is irrational to intend to φ and intend to Θ while believing it is flatly impossible to do both together.

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    The simplest version of such an account depends on what Michael Bratman has dubbed “the Simple View.” This is the thesis that proposition (6) above, [The agent G'd intentionally] and, correspondingly, proposition (7) [The agent Fed with the intention of Ging] entail that, at the time of action, the agent intended to G. Surely, from the causalist point of view, the most natural account of Ging intentionally is that the action of Ging is governed by a present directed intention whose content for t

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