Any choice, moral or other, presupposes the capacity to choose.
As Carruthers puts it, the subjective feel of experience presupposes a capacity for higher-order awareness, and as he then continues, "such self-awareness is a conceptually necessary condition for an organism to be a subject of phenomenal feelings, or for there to be anything that its experiences are like" (Carruthers 1996, 152).
This type of perception presupposes the capacity to isolate a single instant (one in which a significant experience takes place) and "condense" past, present and future in it, subtracting it from the rhythm of time and thus introducing into the latter a break which, as Giorgio Agamben writes "seems to introduce a split or halt in this eternal flow" (Agamben, 1984, pp. 150-151).
Freedom presupposes the capacity for sacrifice".
Respect autonomy presupposes a capacity for intentional action on the basis of one's own rational deliberations as well as freedom for controlling instances.
Partnership presupposes that capacity building can and should be a two-way street, with donor organizations standing to gain knowledge from their relationships with their partners [ 42].
In Mali, for example, according to a survey of perceptions conducted among 579 individuals (health workers and users, in particular): "Stakeholders remained sceptical about the State's ability to provide free treatment, which represents a real financial challenge and presupposes a capacity for organization and control which they feel the State does not have" [ 1].
In passing, Haugeland makes the unusual claim, argued for elsewhere, that genuine intelligence and semantics presuppose "the capacity for a kind of commitment in how one lives" which is non-propositional that is, love (cp. Stevenon-propositional thatm Artisicialovetelligencp: AI).
Hence intentionalism can hold that experiences are the same in the hallucinatory and veridical cases, even though the existence of the involved recognitional capacity presupposes the existence of the object recognised.
