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[lojban] Re: le gusta co minde mutce
Jorge, the situations you have mentioned in your message are not using "motive" correctly; in place of "motive", those statements should be using "action". A motive is a reason for someone to do something; in the situations you have mentioned, the "to do something
is incorrectly being called a motive.
For example, in the situation "to cover up a politically embarrassing problem for his bosses", the person's motive is, most likely, the necessity of keeping his job.
Also, in the situation "to attract votes from the border states", the person's motive is, most likely, his or her desire to win the election.
A goal of an action cannot be a motive of the same action; however, the necessity of such a goal's realization can be a motive of the action.
I have also performed a Google search for "his motive was to", and I came across many results following my definition of "motive"; I saw very few usages in the manner you described.
tijlan,
It does not matter whether or not you said that "to buy butter" was an action, as it is an action regardlessly. "To buy butter" is not an intention. Whether or not one can be motivated by ideas is not relevant, as "to buy butter" is not a motivational idea.
Whether or not "I will buy butter" is an action or an idea is not relevant; "I will buy butter" is still not an intention.
If someone recalled his or her intent to buy butter, the intent is not a motive for the person to recall the state "I have run out of butter, and I need butter"; rather, the person would be motivated to recall such a state by his or her desire or need to recall.
"I need butter" is a mukti, as "I need butter" is a motive for an event, the purchase of butter; "I have run out of butter" is a krinu, as "I have run out of butter" is the reason for the person's need of butter.
A person's will by itself cannot serve as a motive, as a motive is a reason for someone to do something.
Although a person's intention can condition his or her action, his or her intention is not a condition.