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    It is not the case that Perspectivism is correct about normative reasons.

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    • 1.Normative reasons are objective facts about what matters, grounded in agent-independent value (Parfit, Scanlon).
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    • 2.If reasons depended on epistemic perspective, an agent ignorant of all relevant facts could have reasons to perform any action.
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    • 3.A theory generating such arbitrary reasons cannot be tracking the genuine normative domain it purports to explain.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.The perspectival conflation of motivating and normative reasons commits the 'wrong kind of reason' error Williams diagnosed.
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    • 2.Rationalizing an action from a subjective motivational set explains behavior without conferring genuine normative justification.
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    • 1.Agents who act in error or ignorance often act rationally.
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    • 2.One acts rationally when one acts for reasons that make it rational for one to so act.
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    • 3.Therefore, agents acting in error or ignorance act for reasons they have to do what they do.
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