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In the preceding chapter (note 7), I claimed that, where what one chooses or decides is to do this or that, choice and decision may be understood to be one and the same. Moreover, it is clear from my discussion after II.3 that I understand choosing and deciding in this sense to be distinct from doing (or acting).
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See J. L. Evans, “Choice,” Philosophical Quarterly, V (October 1955), 303–315;
W. D. Glasgow, “On Choosing,” Analysis, XVII (June 1957), 135–139;
and P. H. Nowell-Smith, “Choosing, Deciding, and Doing,” Analysis, XVIII (January 1958), 63–69
“Choice,” 308.
“Choice,” 309.
Ibid., 309–310—the italics are mine and are for later reference only.
Ibid., 312.
“On Choosing,” 137.
“Choice,” 309.
Ibid., 310–311.
Evans cites as precedent for his position, Nowell-Smith, Ethics (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1954), p. 101. The four main points of Glasgow’s paper are summarized in “Choosing, Deciding, and Doing,” 63.
“Choosing, Deciding, and Doing,” 64.
“On Choosing,” 139.
Cf. “Choice,” 304 f. and “On Choosing,” 135.
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Rayfield, D. (1972). Choosing, Deciding, and Doing. In: Action: An Analysis of the Concept. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2807-3_3
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