Doing and refraining from refraining

Journal of Philosophical Logic 23 (6):621 - 632 (1994)
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The main purpose of this paper is to prove that in every stit semantic structure that contains a busy choice sequence, neither does doing imply refraining from refraining from doing, nor does refraining from refraining from doing imply doing

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