ABSTRACT
We suppose that you are not allowed to arrange that you be bound or forced to fulfil the intention. Nor do you have any other reason to drink once you have the money. So although you had good reason to form the intention, you have no reason to drink the potion once the money is yours. How then can you form the intention? ‘I intend to drink the potion but I won’t drink it’ is as self-defeating a belief or utterance as one of the form ‘p but I don’t believe it’ (see Moore’s Paradox). Normally your reasons for forming an intention to do A are your reasons for doing A; but in this case they come apart.
