  Unlike  (G),  (G*1) assesses an act’s deontic status in a procedural manner, starting with the options that are immediately available to the agent, and then proceeding to the next immediately available options. To illustrate, part (A) of (G*1) tells us to first evaluate all of the options that are immediately performable for Jones at \(t_1\), and those options are either ⟨going to the office⟩ or ⟨staying home⟩. The latter option is obligatory because it would result in a better act-set than the act-set that would result if Jones were to ⟨go to the office⟩. Part (B) of (G*1) tells us that, as of \(t_1\), Jones ought to perform an immediate successor to ⟨staying home⟩ at \(t_1\) that would result in a better sequence of acts than any alternative option that is an immediate successor to ⟨staying home⟩ at \(t_1\). So, at \(t_1\), Jones ought to ⟨stay home and then do research for lectures⟩ from \(t_1\)–\(t_2\). Similarly, at \(t_1\), Jones ought to perform an act-set that terminates with ⟨writing lecture notes⟩ at \(t_3\), given the assumption that the act-set that would follow ⟨writing the lecture notes⟩ at \(t_3\) is better than the act-set that would follow ⟨fixing lunch⟩ at \(t_3\).