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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a reason for something" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when explaining the justification or cause behind an action, event, or decision.
Example: "There is a reason for something happening, and we need to investigate further to understand it."
Alternatives: "an explanation for something" or "a justification for something".
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The father was full of rigid wisdoms, and used to say, "there's always a reason for something, sometimes two".
The agent-relative/agent-neutral distinction concerns the form of a practical principle, whereas the other distinction concerns whether a reason is a reason for an agent to do something or a reason for something to happen.
Rather, it is simply to note that it is not obviously misguided to reject the very concept of a reason for something to happen, and we should leave room for someone to do this without supposing all reasons for acting are agent-relative, for that is simply another question.
One way of making the separateness of these two distinctions especially vivid is to note that someone might embrace the former distinction and admit that there are both kinds of reasons, but reject the very notion of a "reason for something to happen" as resting on an obscure, confused notion of a reason that can float free of all possible agents.
Well in short, lots—I learned that I'm terrible under pressure, I learned that a constant inhaling of 0.7 mls of nicotine in the space of three hours will give me the shakes, and I learned that saying 'no' to teenagers is enough of a reason for something to become the height of cool.
Forcing yourself to come up with a reason for something that seems nonsensical can actually help you release the anxiety around what you feel is a problem.
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It's not a reason for withholding something".Sir Alan Beith, the chairman of the parliamentary Justice Committee, which oversees the FOI act, was sharply critical of the Home Office's excuse.
It gives us a reason for trying something different.
You don't have a reason for doing something, but you have the best culture in the world.
Let's start with defining motivation so we're all talking about the same thing: "the art or process of giving someone a reason for doing something".
(My friend would I suspect argue that her show wouldn't have seemed fake to most, but I think even an average audience rarely buys "scheduling conflicts" as a reason for missing something without a demonstrable conflict laid out).
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