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    To act in light of a fact that is a reason, an agent needs to know the relevant fact.

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    • 1.An agent may act on the basis of a belief merely by treating what she believes as a reason for acting.
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    • 2.If there is a fact in virtue of which her belief is true, she acts in light of that fact (is guided by it) only if she knows that fact.
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    • 3.If the agent does not know the fact, the relationship between her action and the fact is fortuitous, a matter of luck or coincidence.
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    • 1.Reliably formed true beliefs can guide action in ways that track the world even without satisfying the internal conditions constitutive of knowledge.
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    • 2.Gettier cases show that justified true belief fails to constitute knowledge, yet agents in such cases are plausibly guided by the relevant facts in their deliberation.
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    • 3.If Gettier agents can act in light of facts via justified true belief sans knowledge, the knowledge condition is too strong for fact-relative guidance.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of akrasia shows agents can be causally responsive to practical facts through non-propositional, dispositional awareness below explicit knowledge.
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    • 2.If sub-doxastic or tacit sensitivity to a fact suffices to make that fact operative in an agent's practical reasoning, knowledge is not necessary for acting in its light.
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    We noted above that most if not all accounts of acting for a motivating reason require as a condition that the agent be in some kind of epistemic relation to the reason that motivates her. And we saw also that a widespread view is that this epistemic relation is one of belief: for an agent to act for the reason that p, the agent must believe that p. It is this thought that led many to endorse the view that reasons are mental states (often as part of the “desire-belief” conception of reasons for
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