  Yet further problems arise. Suppose that I intend to achieve some unforgettable end, and recognize that it will require, in due course, a presently forgettable means. (Suppose that I am already set on making a cloak, an end which already looms large in my mind; but some subsidiary means that I know to be necessary in due course can only become salient when the time approaches—I cannot now form an intention to realize the means since I know that I would at once forget it until my intention to realize the end reminded me of them at an opportune moment.) I then already intend the end, but cannot as yet seriously intend the means; for it is plausibly part of having a present intention to do something that one expects one’s intention to play a role in a causal sequence culminating in one’s doing it.