ABSTRACT
The upshot of this discussion has been that the account of the people behaviour implicit in their ordinary language is teleological in form. Thus something more than teleological explanation is required for the reader to use the notion of action, and, it follows of course, the notion of desire as well. Thus the directedness of actions has to do with their nature; they are not marked off from other events simply by the way the people account for them, by the laws they instance. The notion ‘centre’ seems very strongly rooted in their ordinary view of such systems, and it gives rise to a deep-seated and pervasive metaphor, that of the ‘inside’. If there were no motivated resistance it is difficult to see how the people could speak of ‘desire’. A common ground for holding that it is wrong is one connected with the notion of consciousness or mind.
