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View submission: Why treat "desire" as a propositional attitude?
Also, just a minor point. It's about your spider example. Consider the following:
John wants to smoke a cigarrete John knows that cigarretes are harmful
Does John want to do something harmful?
John himself might say yes, but it seems that in some contexts it would be inappropriate to say so. If, for instance, we ask: Why did John ask for a lighter? I think it would be incorrect in that case to say that he did so because he wanted to do something harmful.
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