Sentence examples for reason statements from inspiring English sources

Williams here distinguishes internal and external reasons, proposing that the truth conditions of internal reason statements be supposed essentially to involve facts about the motivations of the agent whereas those of external reasons should not.

He flooded the government, the legislature, and the press with closely reasoned statements of Indian grievances.

From this understanding of the concept of a practical reason, Williams (on this interpretation) believes he can prove that all 'external reasons statements' are false by considering the special case of first personal reasons beliefs: an agent's beliefs about what considerations are reasons for himself.

If only the media had the gravitas to promote reasoned statements like Jeanine Pirro who said "We need to kill them all".

His style of lecturing was impressive: lucid and informative, often impassioned, always enlightening, a reasoned statement of a highly radical analysis.

Having read Justice Antonin Scalia's decision not to recuse himself in the case involving Vice President Dick Cheney (front page, March 19), I find it a reasoned statement of why personal friendships and interactions are not grounds for recusal by a Supreme Court justice.

Given this package of ontological views, the reason-statement-based version of the distinction looks unhelpful.

However, the reason-statement-based version of the distinction has problems of its own.

Nor does it seem to exclude a variety of ontological views about reasons as the reason-statement-based version of the distinction did.

So Pettit's version of the distinction, and more generally the reason-statement-based version of the distinction, seems unlikely to offend against particularist sensibilities.

So far, it looks like we have a kind of dominance argument for the reason-statement-based version of the distinction.