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The Relationship Between Options and Abilities
I like how simple and elegant the view is in that it's not committed to any of these auxiliary doctrines. So maybe you could say something about how that kind of building the more complicated modality out of the more basic notion of an option might work. I'm a reductivist about abilities, you know, I'm a non-drug is about options. And so I think options are basic. They can't be analyzed. On my view, abilities are to be, they're kind of patterns in the space of options. To put it formally, to have the ability to fight is to generally have, fight as an option,. Where generally is then spelled out, can become more formal