Many believe that moral rightness or wrongness are categorically reason-giving features of actions.
The challenge is: why would such a natural property be categorically reason-giving?
"But what we don't want to do is state categorically the reason for the crash, which is under investigation," said Maj. Tim James, a British Army spokesman for the NATO-led military coalition.
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And the medical examiner could not categorically state the reason for her initial collapse, though a significant electrolyte imbalance due to bulimia was not ruled out.
A common reaction is to simply use intuitively unexpected cytochrome c sequence data for specific primates as a reason to categorically reject amino acid sequence data as evidence for common descent.
There's no reason to categorically impugn all novels that address the Holocaust simply because most of them are bad".
For Smith, as we have seen, normative and motivating reasons are entirely distinct, categorically different sorts of things: normative reasons are truths, while motivating reasons are belief-desire pairs, psychological features of the agent (1994, 96; 2004a, 151 152).
Whereas the moral rules categorically prohibit violations (unless sufficient reasons can be provided), the moral ideals merely encourage people to prevent or relieve the sorts of harms covered by the rules.
And those requests for clarifying information were categorically denied on the grounds that any information about the FBI's reasons for denying previous Foia requests were by their very nature secret.
To say that moral requirements are categorically prescriptive is to say that these reasons are categorical in the sense of Kant's categorical imperatives.
