What is your answer?

Which of these ISN'T a conscientiousness theorem?

    { 1 } - Don't believe that something is your duty without acting to do it.
    { 2 } - Don't combine believing that you ought to do A now with not acting to do A.
    { 3 } - If you believe that you ought to do A, then you ought to do A.

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1 is wrong. Please try again.

Which of these ISN'T a conscientiousness theorem?

This is an intuitive but less precise way of expressing our main conscientiousness theorem.

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2 is wrong. Please try again.

Which of these ISN'T a conscientiousness theorem?

    { 1 } - Don't believe that something is your duty without acting to do it.
    { 2 } - Don't combine believing that you ought to do A now with not acting to do A.
    { 3 } - If you believe that you ought to do A, then you ought to do A.

This is our main conscientiousness theorem.

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3 is correct!

Which of these ISN'T a conscientiousness theorem?

    { 1 } - Don't believe that something is your duty without acting to do it.
    { 2 } - Don't combine believing that you ought to do A now with not acting to do A.
    { 3 } - If you believe that you ought to do A, then you ought to do A.

This can imply absurdities. Suppose that Ima believes that he ought to commit mass murder; then he ought to do it! The principle tells us, implausibly, that whatever we take to be our duty actually is our duty -- we can't be in error about what we ought to do.

We can also give cases where this principle has self-contradictory implications.

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