Yet merely giving a reason — even an extremely good reason — fails to explain an agent's action, if the reason was not in fact "effective".
The senior law lord may have been right to claim, as he did yesterday, that the potential corruption of trials is merely a secondary reason to oppose torture, the first being its immorality.
And we tend to see in the roughly 4percentt genetic difference that separates us from chimps not an unknowable gap but merely a good reason to perform on them — or perhaps Neanderthals — experiments that we'd just as soon not perform upon ourselves.
For the most part, these are merely inconveniences, not a reason to pass up bargain fares to foreign destinations or an invitation to visit a friend in Canada.
In reality, though, the World Cup merely gave Qatar a reason to trumpet select aspects of much bigger and existing plans to invest around $225 billion into infrastructure through 2016.
The crucial difference between the Situation Calculus and tense logic is that change in the situation is dynamic changes do not merely occur, but occur for a reason.
To take but one example, even if we think that there is no void, indeed even if we think that it is impossible that there should be a void, and so think that the void is merely a being of reason, we will find ourselves discussing "the void" when investigating the characteristics of space, motion, matter, and quantity.
Skorupski (2000) has forcefully argued that there is no dualism of the "pure" practical reason, which is agent neutral, but there are many such conflicts in the larger field of less than pure practical reason, not merely a conflict with egoistic reasons.
In making those remarks, Mr. Karzai asserted, he was speaking only to the Taliban and telling them that their bomb attacks were merely giving the Americans a reason to prolong their stay in Afghanistan.
That is, there is a further state of affairs \ q\) which is a (merely partial) reason for the subsistence of the first.
