By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
What is a decision?
A decision is the formation of either a belief or an action—"belief" being understood as the acceptance of a constative, "action" being understood as the (at least attempted) fulfillment of an imperative.
Before one can fulfill (or even attempt to fulfill) an imperative, however, one must first accept it. So in the case of an action, the decision forming it is, first of all, the formation of the intention structuring the action—"intention" being understood as the acceptance of an imperative.
10 July 1996
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