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    It is not the case that Williams' view is an Actual State internalism, not a Counterfactual Motivation internalism

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    • 1.Williams' deliberative procedure of 'sound deliberation' requires evaluating what an agent would want under idealized reflection, not merely actual states.
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    • 2.A reason grounded in what sound deliberation would yield is structurally counterfactual, since it invokes hypothetical rather than occurrent motivational states.
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    • 3.Therefore Williams' account incorporates a counterfactual element that blurs the boundary between Actual State and Counterfactual Motivation internalism.
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    • 1.Parfit and Railton argue that Williams' appeal to 'correction of factual error' within the S entails that the operative reasons-grounding state is the corrected, idealized desire, not the actual one.
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    • 2.If the reasons-grounding state is the desire the agent would have after full information and coherent deliberation, the view is functionally equivalent to a Counterfactual Motivation account.
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    • 1.Williams' argument connects reasons to all psychological states relevant to explaining action
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    • 2.Counterfactual Motivation internalism connects reasons only to counterfactual motivational states
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    • 3.Williams' argument is more general than Counterfactual Motivation accounts
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