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Arm Raising and Arm Rising

Jennifer Hornsbya1

a1 Corpus Christi College, Oxford

I. It is a necessary condition of the truth of ‘I raised my arm’ that my arm rose; but it is not a sufficient condition. Is there some further necessary condition which, when conjoined with the condition that my arm rose, does give a sufficient condition of the truth of ‘I raised my arm’?