>Suppose I intend to go to the store at noon and know that to get to the store, I need to take the bus, but don’t intend to take the bus. This is incoherent.
Suppose I know that I need not _intend_ to take the bus because as soon as I walk in the direction of the store, 1) some large person always grabs me and forces me on the bus, which only ever lets me out at the store (even if I don’t intend to go to the store), 2) someone always remotely controls my movements via a brain implant to put me on the bus and get out at the store, 3) I always go into a trance whereby I find I am at the store having taken the bus, although I never had that explicit intention, 4) etc., etc. Not realistic, of course, but apparently logical possibilities. Hence, it may not be “incoherent” in a pure logical sense (but maybe it is in a practical sense). Does this matter?
>It is irrational—indeed, incoherent—to plan to go to the store while failing to plan to take the bus if I believe the bus is the only means to get there.
>Suppose I intend to go to the store at noon and know that to get to the store, I need to take the bus, but don’t intend to take the bus. This is incoherent.
Suppose I know that I need not _intend_ to take the bus because as soon as I walk in the direction of the store, 1) some large person always grabs me and forces me on the bus, which only ever lets me out at the store (even if I don’t intend to go to the store), 2) someone always remotely controls my movements via a brain implant to put me on the bus and get out at the store, 3) I always go into a trance whereby I find I am at the store having taken the bus, although I never had that explicit intention, 4) etc., etc. Not realistic, of course, but apparently logical possibilities. Hence, it may not be “incoherent” in a pure logical sense (but maybe it is in a practical sense). Does this matter?
>It is irrational—indeed, incoherent—to plan to go to the store while failing to plan to take the bus if I believe the bus is the only means to get there.
It is highly ironic that the very idea of the “irrational” appears to be incoherent: https://jclester.substack.com/p/rationality-a-libertarian-viewpoint