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    Supports→Normative propositions are normative because, necessarily, anyone who believes a normative proposition is motivated accordingly.

    The connection between normative beliefs and motivation must be due to the content of normative beliefs.

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    One familiar view is that normative thought has a special, internal, connection to motivation. According to motivational judgment internalism (MJI), it is a necessary truth that a person who believes she ought to do something is motivated accordingly. Generalizing, perhaps all normative thoughts are such that, necessarily, a person with a normative thought is thereby motivated accordingly. This connection to motivation arguably must be due to the content of normative beliefs, since not all belie

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