Pollock on Practical Reasoning
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Statement on practical reasoning
By “practical reasoning” I shall understand reasoning about what to do. Doing something includes as the most elementary case (1) the immediate initiation of a change in the agent itself (typically a movement of some part or parts of its body). More complex cases are (2) the immediate initiation of a series of bodily movements and (3) adoption of an intention to initiate a sequence of bodily mov...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Informal Logic
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0824-2577,0824-2577
DOI: 10.22329/il.v22i3.2591