"If I had reason to personally believe, let alone the company" that any of the material was highly infectious, "we wouldn't have sent it out," he said.
This means that I should only assent to what seems to me to be a cognitive impression if I have reason to believe that I'm not in a context where deceptive but convincing impressions are possible.
I mean, I think I had a constant mild delirium tremens that would act up if I had reason to be nervous.
And if I state reasons for my position, the process of making my reasons explicit in the form of an argument helps me understand my view and myself.
"Listen," I reason, "if you choose a job you like, you'll be good at it.
If I had, I reasoned, Tom would have questions, and I was not yet sure of the answers.
That's such a gigantic "if," for reasons I'll explain in a moment, that there's virtually no chance that these "forecasts" have any predictive power whatsoever.
I wonder if the reason I feel this way is because I have options, because I can leave.
If I have no reason to do such an act, then I do not always have a reason to do what is morally good, but I still might always have a reason to do what is morally required.
