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Ideas for 'Causes and Counterfactuals', 'Enquiry Conc Human Understanding' and 'The Virtues and Human Nature'

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

23146	Motives produce intentions, which lead to actions [Driver]
	Full Idea: Motives will cause persons for form intentions; it is intentions which more directly guide actions.
	From: Julia Driver (The Virtues and Human Nature [1996], 3)
	A reaction: This is invites the question of whether there is a sharp distinction between the motive and the action. Detectives look for motives, but law courts look for intentions.

20. Action / B. Preliminaries of Action / 2. Willed Action / a. Will to Act

2220	Only experience teaches us about our wills [Hume]
	Full Idea: We learn the influence of our will from experience alone.
	From: David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], VII.I.52)
	A reaction: I can, of course, produce inductive generalisations about what my will can achieve, based on some limited experiences. "I know I can master that". Hobbes (and others) say we have no experience of a 'will'. Hume should be more sceptical!