A note on von Wright's formulation of intentional explanations

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Authors: Beckermann, Ansgar;

doi: 10.1007/bf00174899

A note on von Wright's formulation of intentional explanations

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In a lecture given at Karlsruhe University in the summer of 1975 von Wright tried to defend his formulation (i) against this alternative view. One could ask however on which occasions when A intends to bring about p he in fact performs the action a. And then one immediately realizes that both formulations are not quite correct if they are taken seriously. Let us first have a look at von Wright's formulation (i) and let us consider for illustration the following example of an intentional explanation :

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