Personal motivation to self-monitor and self-manage is based on the individual's expectations about what will happen if he or she undertakes particular diabetes management actions.
In this second scenario, they will need to assess the options presented to them, the degree of attention being given to the problem that the option is meant to address, and any political events that may present a window of opportunity during which particular actions could be undertaken.
The evidence for any connection between an individual donation and a particular action undertaken by government has never been more than tenuously circumstantial.
In this study, we sought to use an ethnographic approach to explain why individuals in different situations and settings took particular actions and choices relating to diabetes (including choosing not to undertake what a health professional would call 'self-management').
Still, provisional action is action, and particular actions are sometimes irrevocable.
(But we also speak of particular actions, particular events, particular souls, and much else).
Patricia Smith, the state labor commissioner, said state agencies will undertake enforcement action against particular industries, like construction, where misclassification is prevalent.
My plea, therefore, is that it is important for governments to consider these questions explicitly so that they have a better understanding of the actions they do or do not undertake and they are better aware of the consequences of particular action or inaction.
The semantic stratum can present a large set of possibilities each of which will be heard as some kind of demand to undertake an action in a particular way so as to make a difference to the existing scenario, varying in what goods-&-service are being demanded, and what relation the asking will 'enact' with the addressee.
By contrast, Railton argues, objective consequentialism denies that there is such a tight connection between the objective justification of a state of affairs in terms of its consequences and the agent's motives in acting: the moral justification of a particular action is one thing (and to be undertaken in consequentialist terms), but the motives for that action may be entirely separate.
