concerned not merely with identifying and evaluating appropriate means to the realization of ends construed as uncriticizable, but also with coordinating achievement of their sum. The concept of a totality of ranked concerns is the cornerstone of the theory of utility. This paper discusses some of the ways that practical reasoning, on the ground, is not instrumen- tal in this sense. The paper will demonstrate that some of what goes on by way of practical reasoning on the ground involves a certain simple inference schema—to be called “imita- tive reasoning”—that involves mobilization of what has been alternately referred to as...