Ideas from 'Intending' by Donald Davidson [1978], by Theme Structure

[found in 'Essays on Actions and Events' by Davidson,Donald [OUP 1982,0-19-824637-4]].

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20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / a. Nature of intentions

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An intending is a judgement that the action is desirable

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 1. Intention to Act / c. Reducing intentions

20024

Davidson gave up reductive accounts of intention, and said it was a primitive [Wilson/Schpall]