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    It is not the case that The weaker-sense premise — that a rational or virtuous agent would only be motivated to act if the actual agent has some actual desire that could produce that motivation — is false.

    ?Set your confidence on the premises below to see your aggregate.

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    • 1.Agents can be irrational or vicious precisely because they lack certain desires.
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    • 2.If an agent can be irrational or vicious due to lacking certain desires, then motivation cannot be grounded solely in actual desires the agent happens to have.
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