Mostly. I’m trying to make the concept precise and transparent; saying “an agent is a person who gets stuff done” leaves the mechanism by which they get things done opaque, and most of the posts discussing agency seem to have a flavor of “an agent is a person who gets my stuff done” (notably including the possibility that the speaker is not an agent in that sense).
Mostly. I’m trying to make the concept precise and transparent; saying “an agent is a person who gets stuff done” leaves the mechanism by which they get things done opaque, and most of the posts discussing agency seem to have a flavor of “an agent is a person who gets my stuff done” (notably including the possibility that the speaker is not an agent in that sense).