Lexicon of Arguments

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Danto II 325
Motives/Melden/v. Wright: motives are analytical, causes are synthetical.
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>Analyticity/syntheticity, >Reasons, >Reason/Cause.
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Glüer II 84
Wittgenstein: 'We can only make assumptions about the cause, but we can know the motive.
Skill/Wittgenstein/Glüer: that is a grammatical statement. The "can" refers to the logical possibility. >Motives.
According to Wittgenstein, the ability to give reasons for action is not part of our empirical world knowledge, but rather part of our linguistic competence.
Reason/Cause/Action/Practical Syllogism/Davidson/Aristoteles: If I eat chocolate because I have reasons, that is the cause of my action.
II 85
Theory of action/Ground/Ersache/Motiv/Wittgenstein/Glüer: all arguments of this kind assume that there is such a close logical-conceptual relation between ground and action that reasons and actions cannot be understood as two distinct events. Only as numerically different could they be related in a relation of causation. >Actions.

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