#causation

1. The ability to form an object we desire to achieve through action.
2. The ability to form a belief about how certain actions will or will not achieve the objects of our desires.
3. The ability to act on our desires and our belief so that our actions form the “conclusion” of a valid practical syllogism.

— Capacity for practical reasoning described by M Moore in ‘Causation and the Excuses’(1985)