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    Willing an end does not entail willing all necessary mean... — Carmelics
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    Willing an end does not entail willing all necessary means—agents can coherently will ends while remaining agnostic about which means to pursue (Korsgaard, 'The Normativity of Instrumental Reason').

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    Agnostic (about)(as used in epistemology)
    Remaining neutral or undecided about something; not committing to a particular belief or position on the matter.
    Coherently(as describing how these functions work together)
    In a way that is logically consistent and doesn't contradict itself.
    Entail(In logical reasoning and argumentation)
    To logically follow or guarantee as a necessary consequence; if something is true, what does it force to also be true?
    Instrumental reason(Central concept in Critical Theory, particularly Horkheimer's Eclipse of Reason and Dialectic of Enlightenment.)
    A form of rationality oriented toward usefulness and the domination of nature, which subsumes all rationality under the calculus of means and ends.
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    (as a major figure in moral philosophy)
    A contemporary American philosopher who specializes in ethics and Kantian philosophy; she argues that reason itself can demand certain actions.
    Normativity of Instrumental Reason(as used in ethics and philosophy of action)
    The philosophical question of whether using the best means to achieve your goals is something reason actually requires you to do, or just suggests.
    Willing(philosophy of mind and theology)
    The act of choosing or deciding to make something happen through conscious intention or desire.
    means(as used in means-ends reasoning)
    The actions or tools you use to achieve a goal; the 'how' rather than the 'what'.

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