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    P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes are constitutively ori... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Communicative theories of blame face a potential problem

    P.F. Strawson's reactive attitudes are constitutively oriented toward second-personal relations, meaning their intentional content is communicative even absent actual expression.

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    • 1.Reactive attitudes like resentment logically presuppose understanding another's agency and responsible action, which are inherently relational concepts.
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    • 2.Even unexpressed reactive attitudes involve implicit address to the other—we resent what someone *did*, treating them as an answerable agent.
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    • 3.The normative force of reactive attitudes (demanding accountability) only makes sense within a framework oriented toward potential moral communication.
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    • 1.Reactive attitudes can arise toward non-agents (storms, diseases) or toward absent parties we'll never communicate with, undermining constitutive second-personality.
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    • 2.Intentional content can be communicative in form without being *constitutively* communicative—the attitude's identity may not depend on communicative orientation.
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    • 3.Unexpressed reactive attitudes often lack the structural features of actual communication (comprehension, uptake, reciprocal recognition), suggesting communication is contingent, not constitutive.
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