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    It is not necessary that every reason for which an agent ... — Carmelics
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    It is not necessary that every reason for which an agent makes a decision must be reflected in the content of the intention formed in making that decision

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    • 1.Bratman's planning theory distinguishes intentions as partial plans that need not encode all motivating considerations driving their formation.
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    • 2.An intention functions as a commitment to act, not as an exhaustive record of the practical reasoning that produced it.
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    • 3.The content of an intention is constituted by its action-guiding role, which requires only specifying what to do, not why.
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    • 1.Anscombe's analysis in 'Intention' shows that the sense in which action is intentional is determined by descriptions under which the agent acts, not by all antecedent reasons.
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    • 2.A single decision can be intentional under one description while reasons operating at a different level of description remain outside the intention's content.
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    • 1.Prior to making a decision, an agent may consider a large number and variety of factors
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    • 2.A decision might be made for many different reasons simultaneously
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    • 3.Requiring each and every reason to enter into the content of the resulting intention is implausible given the multiplicity of reasons involved
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    Another question about the account concerns whether the required correspondence between the reasons for which one decides and the content of one’s decision is really necessary. Sometimes prior to making a decision, an agent considers a large number and variety of factors. Her decision might then be made for many different reasons. It is implausible that each and every one of the reasons for which she makes her decision must enter into the content of the intention that she forms in making that de
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