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I am very grateful to Arthur Danto and Bernard Berofsky for their careful reading of earlier versions of this paper, and I am indebted to their detailed comments and criticisms for many improvements.
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Slezak, P. Actions, cognition and the self. Synthese 66, 405–435 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00414060
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