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    It is not the case that The Humean conflation of motivating states with propositional content illicitly treats the vehicle of motivation as identical to its object.

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    • 1.Motivating states necessarily have propositional structure; desires are always 'desires that' or 'desires for X'.
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    • 2.The distinction between vehicle and content is metaphysically unclear; motivation requires representational content.
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    • 3.Hume's account successfully explains motivation without requiring the vehicle-content distinction the critic invokes.
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    • 1.Motivating states like desires have non-representational phenomenal properties distinct from what they represent.
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    • 2.Treating vehicles as identical to content conflates the physical/mental substrate with its semantic content.
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    • 3.A desire's felt quality can motivate behavior even when its propositional content remains unclear or unstated.
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