ABSTRACT
When I want to comfort my young child, my limbs move so as to pick him up. When the actor hears his cue, he enters the stage. When you feel thirsty, you reach for the glass of water. These are common, everyday episodes. And we generally nd it quite natural to say more. My desire to comfort my child doesn’t merely correlate with (or precede, as the case may be) my lifting my child. Rather, I lift him because I wish to comfort him. And the ‘because’ is naturally read causally in this context, so that it is correct to say that my desire to comfort him is part of a causal nexus that issues in my limbs moving as they do.
