Hanser's own view is that an act harms a person only if the agent stands in some "appropriate relation" to the harm that is suffered, where that relation will involve a counterfactual element and accordingly may not obtain if the suffering is due to a genetic disease or disorder (Hanser 2009).
Nonetheless, despite those doubts, most ethicists consider the morally appropriate relation to future generations to be a serious topic.
On the simple desire-belief model, an intention is a combination of desire-belief states, and an action is intentional in virtue of standing in the appropriate relation to these simpler states.
It is well and fine to say that a propositional attitude report involves an utterance of an embedded sentence which samesays something that that the subject of the report bears the appropriate relation to.
When the processes at work in the social fact then begin to outstrip particular institutional feedback mechanisms that maintain it within the institution, then the institution must be transformed if it is to stand in the appropriate relation to the facts that make it feasible and realizable.
While this error was deemed acceptable for the purpose of our campaign, future work is required to establish an appropriate relation for the Indonesian region, by statistical analysis of routine radiosonde soundings.
For the EEPAS model, the b-value ("bEEPAS" in Table 1) plays a role in the normalising function (Eq. (6)), that is needed to retain an appropriate relation between the number of "small" precursory earthquakes and the number of "large" predicted events.
Especially well known is the old and venerable attempt, known as bundle theory, to reduce particulars to properties linked together by an appropriate relation, which Russell (1948, Pt. IV, ch. 8) called compresence.
(b) If a particular cause is to be a prior determinant of a particular effect, then there must be an appropriate relation between cause and effect.
In the Tractatus, declarative sentences (Sätze) are said to be facts (arrangements of names), and states of affairs (Sachlagen, Sachverhalte, Tatsachen) are also said to be facts (arrangements of objects): a sentence is true just if there is an appropriate relation of correspondence (an isomorphism) between sentence and state of affairs.
