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Danto on Basic Actions
MYLES BRAND
UNIVERSITY OF PITMSBURGH
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DANTO ON BASIC ACTIONS 189
actions with P. P is part of myself" (p. 439). On this criterion, it would again
not be the case that knotting one's tie is a basic action for a normal person.
4 Cf. Richard Taylor, Action and Purpose (New Jersey, 1966), p. 108 ff.
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relation between events that Jones brings about, for example, the
staff's moving and the stone's moving; but there is no causal relation
between actions performed by Jones.5
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