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Basic Activity
Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 87 (1):1-18 (2013)
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I present a view of activity, taking it that an agent is engaged in activity so long as an action of hers is occurring. I suggest that this view (a) helps in understanding what goes wrong in an argument in Thompson (2008) known sometimes as the ‘initial segment argument’, and (b) enables us to see that there could be an intelligible conception of what is basic when agents' knowledge is allowed into an account of that.Author's Profile
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Life and action: elementary structures of practice and practical thought.Michael Thompson - 2008 - Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
The logical form of action sentences.Donald Davidson - 1966 - In Nicholas Rescher, The Logic of Decision and Action. University of Pittsburgh Press. pp. 81--95.
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