 What, then, is practical reasoning? There are two ways to think about it. One familiar way is via deliberation: we have some end, and we reason to some sufficient means to that end. Aristotle sketched things this way. Anscombe focuses on another way (although it winds up being equivalent to the first). She notes that the various ways to describe what someone does can bear a particular order to one another. A man might be moving his arm up and down because (and not just, and) he is operating the pump, which he’s doing because (and not just, and) he’s pumping water to the house, and so on. This is an order that really exists among events; it’s not merely the sum of merely physically described events going on in the world and, also somehow, what’s going on in his head. This order is the order of intention.