 Belnap et al. 2001 provisionally defends SDCT. McNamara 2004a raises doubts about this thesis. He notes that we are sometimes obligated to be a certain way (e.g., to be in our office), and furthermore, it is plausible to think that agential obligations reduce to these stative obligations— obligations to be the agents of states of affairs, so that obligations to be a certain way are analytically prior to agential obligations. A related issue is whether there can be cases where a certain person \(i\) faces a given obligation, but these obligations can (in principle or even in practice) be fulfilled by some other person \(j\)—and hence, they are not, strictly speaking, agential obligations for \(i\) (Krogh &amp; Herrestad 1996; McNamara 2004a).