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On his commentary on Wittgenstein's notion of acting intentionally (Wittgenstein 1953), David Pears suggests that anyone who acts intentionally must know two things.
First, "Congress generally acts intentionally when it uses particular language in one section of a statute but omits it in another". Department of Homeland Security v. MacLean, 574 U. S. ___, ___ (2015) (slip op., at 7).
See Russello v. United States, 464 U. S. 16, 23 (1983) ("Where Congress includes particular language in one section of a statute but omits it in another section of the same Act, it is generally presumed that Congress acts intentionally and purposely in the disparate inclusion or exclusion" (internal quotation marks and brackets omitted)).
"Where Congress includes particular language in one section of a statute but omits it in another section of the same Act, it is generally presumed that Congress acts intentionally and purposely in the disparate inclusion or exclusion". United States v. Wong Kim Bo, 472 F.2d 722, 722 (CA5 1972).
When a person acts, he acts intentionally toward an object, a value which attracts the will to itself.
It thus fails to shed light on the conditions under which someone acts — intentionally, even deliberately — without being accountable for what she does.
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These two conditions produced two radically different patterns of results — with most subjects (82%) in the harm condition saying that the agent acted intentionally, but relatively few subjects (23%) in the help condition saying that the agent acted intentionally.
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