The appellate panel reasoned that Proposition 8, as the voter initiative was known, was unconstitutional because it stripped gays, lesbians and bisexuals of the right to marry declared by the State Supreme Court.
Since an understanding of a proposition is neither a pragmatic nor an evidential consideration, it is not the right sort of thing to give us a reason to believe that proposition, and so not the right sort of thing to justify that belief.
As Dietrich and List explicate the relation, a motivating reason is a proposition that, if true of an alternative Q, may influence the agent's actual preference for Q in relation to other alternatives [2013: 107].
If the commanders had taken the time to read the books written by the French who experienced earlier defeats in Vietnam, they would not have committed so many young troops to such a losing proposition, he reasoned.
But now we can only regard that cause as superior, which even the gods supported". Here we have a proposition and a reason, but no formal conclusion: it is therefore the incomplete syllogism known as an enthymeme.
In other words, he might be able to appeal to the conjunction of some other basic propositions and/or non-basic propositions that provide a reason for thinking that b is true.
According to Kant, belief in God is "a postulate of pure practical reason": "a theoretical proposition which is not as such demonstrable, but which is an inseparable corollary of an a priori unconditionally valid practical law" (CPrR 5 122).
(Of course if the notion of truth making did enough illuminatory work for us that would provide a reason for relinquishing such doubts about propositions so conceived but that the notion of truth making does so remains to be established).
Certainly if one assumes that if $p$ justifies belief in $q$, then $p$ is a reason to believe $q$, it is hard to see how our understanding justifies us in believing the proposition understood, for no one can claim that their understanding of a proposition gives them a reason to believe it.
The reason is that a proposition will have a unique truth-value relative to a world.
Charles Gray's reasoned judgment ratified every major proposition the defence sought to establish.
