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Agents do not only do something simpliciter but they often do what they do by doing something else. Consider, for instance, the following statements: ‘Lee killed John by shooting him’, ‘John ventilated the room by opening the window’, ‘Tom apologized by sending a bouquet of roses’, and ‘Bob signaled by extending his arm out the car window’. How are we to account for the ‘by’ of method in these statements?
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Tuomela, R. (1984). Action Generation. In: A Theory of Social Action. Synthese Library, vol 171. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6317-7_6
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