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A third interpretation is that an action might be considered a complex action consisting of several stages and it is the intention that determines which of these stages are to be considered part of the action.

Although this is the interpretation favoured by Dancy, he recognizes that this might not have been Mill ’ s own view for Mill “ would not even allow that ' p & q ' expresses a complex proposition.

He wrote in his System of Logic I iv.

3, of ' Caesar is dead and Brutus is alive ', that ' we might as well call a street a complex house, as these two propositions a complex proposition '.”