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    It is not the case that Only human agents have the relevant mental attitudes required for intentional action

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    • 1.Anscombe and Davidson ground intentional action in the structure of reasons-responsiveness, not linguistic expression per se.
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    • 2.A creature can be responsive to reasons and act accordingly even if it lacks the capacity to articulate those reasons in propositional language.
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    • 3.Therefore the inference from 'requires linguistic competence' to 'only humans qualify' conflates the vehicle of thought with its functional role.
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    • 1.Empirical studies show great apes, corvids, and cetaceans exhibit goal-directed behavior toward represented future states without language.
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    • 2.If non-linguistic creatures can represent goals and act to achieve them, linguistic competence is not necessary for intentional mental attitudes.
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    • 1.Having intentional mental attitudes requires linguistic competence
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    • 2.Only humans possess linguistic competence
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