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    Reggie wins the lottery, but his success is due entirely ... — Carmelics
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    Supports→A condition is needed requiring that the agent's success in performing an action result from the agent's competent exercise of relevant skills, and must not depend too much on sheer luck.

    Reggie wins the lottery, but his success is due entirely to luck rather than any competent skill exercise.

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    However, several authors have questioned whether such a simple equivalence captures the special complexities of what it is to G intentionally.[3] Here is an example adapted from Davidson [1980, essay 4]. Suppose that Betty kills Jughead, and she does so with the intention of killing him. And yet suppose also that her intention is realized only by a wholly unexpected accident. The bullet she fires misses Jughead by a mile, but it dislodges a tree branch above his head and releases a swarm of ho

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