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Refraining, Omitting, and Negative Acts
In Timothy O'Connor & Constantine Sandis (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Action. Oxford, UK: Wiley‐Blackwell. pp. 50–57 (2010)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Ways of Failing to Do Something Refraining Omitting Negative Acts: Inaction as Action? References.Author's Profile
refraining, omitting and negative acts action theory, concerned with the question of what it is to do something four ways of not only not doing something but of failing to do it ‐ trying and not succeeding, refraining, omitting, and allowing ways of failing to do something omission, failure to do, or even attempt to do ‐ something that in one way or another one is ‘supposed to do’ refraining ‐ distinguishing refraining from other ways of failing to do something omitting to do something ‐ not simply not doing it negative acts ‐ inaction as action, occurring during course of performing an action
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