Sometimes differences in people's beliefs can be explained by citing differences in their sensory faculties or intellectual acumen.
The rise of the South Korean golfers, who won almost one-third of the events last year on the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour, has usually been explained by citing two factors: the country's formidably driven parents, and the rock-star status of Se Ri Pak, who has won 23 tournaments and is one of the nation's biggest sports celebrities.
Second, intention-acquisitions themselves can be explained by citing reasons.
Nunamaker explains by citing a project: his design of command-ship software for the U.S. Navy.
This fact, in turn, would then be explained by citing the Form's incomposite, or simple, nature (See §4, supra).
If self-interest is identified with the satisfaction of all of one's preferences, then all intentional action is self-interested (at least if intentional actions are always explained by citing preferences, as most believe).
If one is also concerned with causal explanation if one holds that singular occurrences are explained by citing their causes then the causal completeness of physics in turn commits multiple realizability proponents to physics' possessing an important variety of explanatory completeness that all other sciences lack.
If my Twin Earth counterpart and I have both come in from a long hike, declare that we're thirsty, say "I want some water" and head to the kitchen, it seems that our behavior can be explained by citing a common desire and belief.
Or to put the same point differently, a requirement to recognize some constraint that one should recognize merely in virtue of having competence with the appropriate terms cannot be explained by citing a fact which mere linguistic competence does not put one in a position to recognize.
For example, your belief that human trafficking is wrong is plausibly best explained by citing your reasons for holding it: you believe it's wrong for the reasons you give, such as the fact that it causes tremendous suffering and deprivation, violates the basic dignity and rights of its victims, and so on.
At 17 he dropped out, a decision that he would explain only by citing "dwindling attendance".
