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    Therefore, intentional action requires success via a caus... — Carmelics
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    Supports→A condition is needed requiring that the agent succeed in performing the action in a manner sufficiently in accordance with whatever plan the agent had for performing that action.

    Therefore, intentional action requires success via a causal path sufficiently in accordance with the agent's plan.

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    However, several authors have questioned whether such a simple equivalence captures the special complexities of what it is to G intentionally.[3] Here is an example adapted from Davidson [1980, essay 4]. Suppose that Betty kills Jughead, and she does so with the intention of killing him. And yet suppose also that her intention is realized only by a wholly unexpected accident. The bullet she fires misses Jughead by a mile, but it dislodges a tree branch above his head and releases a swarm of ho

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