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In everyday life we characteristically seek to explain actions by giving the reasons for which they are done. That is, we attempt to account for actions by attributing certain internal mental states to the agents performing them.
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See O. Jones (ed.), The Private Language Argument (Macmillan, 1971 ).
P. Winch, The Idea of a Social Science (Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1958), especially Chapters II and III.
D. Lewis, Convention (Harvard University Press, 1969 ).
H. Garfinkel, Studies in Ethnomethodology (Prentice-Hall, 1967), pp. 68–70.
Cf. J. Rawls, ‘Two Concepts of Rules’, Philosophical Review, Vol. LXIV (1955).
See A. Wootton, Dilemmas of Discourse (Allen and Unwin, 1975), Chapter 3, where this line of reasoning is particularly clear.
Cf. A. Giddens, New Rules of Sociological Method (Hutchinson, 1976 ), Chapter 3.
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Papineau, D. (1978). Actions, Rules and Meanings. In: For Science in the Social Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03287-7_5
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