(Strictly speaking, it’s not necessary to know something in order to be motivated by it. If a fact is considered relevant, but isn’t known, that creates instrumental motivation for finding out what it is! And even if you can’t learn something, you might want to establish a certain dependence of the outcome on that fact, no matter what the fact is.)
(Strictly speaking, it’s not necessary to know something in order to be motivated by it. If a fact is considered relevant, but isn’t known, that creates instrumental motivation for finding out what it is! And even if you can’t learn something, you might want to establish a certain dependence of the outcome on that fact, no matter what the fact is.)