According to this argument, reasons cannot be held to explain actions by causing them because (1) causes and effects must be logically distinct from each other (one of Hume's requirements on causality) but (2) reasons and the actions they explain bear a quasi-logical connection to each other, by virtue of the rationalizing relation between them.
This finding is supported by majority of in-depth interview discussants, for example: − as one 45 yrs/Male explained: "Bearing children is important as one with no children is forgotten when died.
"We write," he explains, "to bear witness".
Many of the young men committing gun crimes, Peterkin explains, have borne witness to violence their entire lives.
People born in the nineteen-seventies, one star explained, still bear traces of the collectivist mind-set of the days before Communism was tempered by market reforms.
I'll attempt to explain, but bear in mind that hardly anyone on the planet truly understands quantum physics, and some of them are probably bluffing.
But every time you think you've got the formula down pat - slip-off shoes, no nailclippers or other sharp objects, no bottles of water, nothing you can't explain or bear to see displayed to the attentive public in line behind you - some new complication crops up.
Bill Abbott, the earnestly bisexual narrator of his own long erotic history, explains that "the bear movement didn't begin until the mid-eighties — those big hairy guys, consciously sloppy, rebelling against the chiseled, neat-and-trim men, with their shaved balls and gym bodies".
When I suggest that he's pulling my leg, he swears on the health of his children and explains that the bear was shot a week earlier by a next-door neighbour.
Kuikman explains that the bear is "something they can relate to.
