Sentence examples for as a practical reason from inspiring English sources
Thus the question of what counts as a practical reason gets deferred, in Velleman's position, to a philosophical account of theoretical explanation.
The pluralist may grant that the results are quite interesting and that they show that ADL has a certain appeal since, for example, it renders L a paradise for analysts but they will view this as a practical reason for adopting ADL, not a theoretical reason.
Because my reasons for action are picked out as what would explain my actions, we cannot, on pain of circularity, gloss what it is to be a satisfactory explanation of an action as being a practical reason.
(There may be a practical reason as well, as any mom could tell you: have you ever tried feeding the baby while using an iPad one-handed? Ha).
This was for a practical reason, as more sera were available for this time point.
Hume, of course, denied that it makes any sense to speak of a conflict between reason and passion, when he declared that reason not only is "but ought only to be" the slave to the passions – a dictum that seems to apply to theoretical as well as practical reason.
So what counts as a (good) practical reason is that which will make one's actions intelligible to one, when one performs them.
Politicians embrace public works projects for symbolic as much as practical reasons, said James K. Galbraith, an economist at the University of Texas.
Due to the rapid development of a zebrafish egg [35] and therefore for time saving as well as practical reasons, we determined the injection volume prior and past a series of 40 to 60 injections of one vehicle in a droplet of mineral oil spotted on the micrometer scale [36].
A day labourer in Smith's time was a consumer of linen shirts for social as well as practical reasons.
