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    Supports→Reasons cannot be causes of actions.

    There are no strict psychological laws and co-ordinate conditions that ensure a suitable action will be the invariant product of pertinent pro-attitudes, beliefs, and other psychological states.

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    Beliefs
    Beliefs are the things you accept as true based on your experiences, what others have told you, or what makes sense to you—even if you don't have complete proof. They shape how you see the world and influence your decisions, from everyday choices to major life directions. Unlike facts that can be verified, beliefs are personal and can differ from person to person.
    Psychological states(in philosophy of mind and decision theory)
    A person's internal mental conditions—like their beliefs, desires, emotions, and motivations—which may not always show up in what they actually do.

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    co-ordinate conditions(as used in philosophy of action)
    All the specific circumstances or factors that need to be present together for something to happen.
    invariant product(as used in philosophy of mind)
    An outcome that always stays the same and doesn't change, no matter what else happens around it.
    pro-attitudes(Used as antecedent conditions in proposed reason-to-action causal laws)
    Psychological states (such as desires, intentions, or evaluative attitudes) that favor or motivate a particular course of action.
    psychological laws(as used in philosophy of mind and action)
    Fixed rules about how the mind works that always produce the same results under the same conditions, like a scientific law in physics.

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    One of the principal arguments that was used to show that reason explanations of action could not be causal was the following. If the agent's explaining reasons R were among the causes of his action A, then there must be some universal causal law which nomologically links the psychological factors in R (together with other relevant conditions) to the A-type action that they rationalize. However, it was argued, there simply are no such psychological laws; there are no strict laws and co-ordinate

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