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    It is not the case that 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.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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    • 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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