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    Challenges→Psychologism about motivating reasons is false

    The reasons agents give and accept as their reasons for acting typically refer to facts about the world rather than mental states

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    This brings us to another, related argument against psychologism, which is simply that consideration of what agents take their reasons for acting to be, and of what they typically give and accept as their reasons for acting, count against psychologism. Thus, as Othello considers what to do, even while in the grip of his jealousy, his reasoning does not include considerations about whether he believes this or that but rather considerations about what Desdemona has or has not done. The things that

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