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    The Simple View is false. — Carmelics
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    The Simple View is false.

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    • 1.An agent can want either to φ or to Θ without preferring one over the other, and believe it is impossible to do both simultaneously.
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    • 2.Such an agent can rationally try to φ and try to Θ concurrently as a strategy to maximize chances of achieving the disjunctive goal of either φing or Θing.
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    • 3.If the agent succeeds in φing through skill and not accident, then the agent φ's intentionally.
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    The simplest version of such an account depends on what Michael Bratman has dubbed “the Simple View.” This is the thesis that proposition (6) above, [The agent G'd intentionally] and, correspondingly, proposition (7) [The agent Fed with the intention of Ging] entail that, at the time of action, the agent intended to G. Surely, from the causalist point of view, the most natural account of Ging intentionally is that the action of Ging is governed by a present directed intention whose content for t
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