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Psychologists
have
developed
quasi-causal
theories
to
explain
the
directedness
of
behaviour,
to
answer
the
question
‘Why
are
certain
sorts
of
reasons
operative?’
and
these
theories
may
well
have
insinuated
themselves
into
ordinary
language
as
part
of
the
meaning
of
“motive”.
It
might
well
be,
therefore,
that
people
who
are
slightly
sophisticated
by
psychological
theories
assume
some
such
necessary
connexion
[between
giving
the
motive
for
an
action
and
making
any
assertions
of
a
causal
kind
about
a
man’s
emotional
state].
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Psychologists have developed quasi-causal theories to explain the directedness of behaviour, to answer the question ‘Why are certain sorts of reasons operative?’ and these theories may well have insinuated themselves into ordinary language as part of the meaning of “motive”. It might well be, therefore, that people who are slightly sophisticated by psychological theories assume some such necessary connexion [between giving the motive for an action and making any assertions of a causal kind about a man’s emotional state].
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