If potential for sexual relations is a reason to bar anyone, it is a reason to bar everyone.
As Dietrich and List explicate the relation, a motivating reason is a proposition that, if true of an alternative Q, may influence the agent's actual preference for Q in relation to other alternatives [2013: 107].
This is the way Jan Cover puts it: Temporal priority depends on a relation of "involves a reason for" (Cover, 317).
The epistemic basing relation is the relation which holds between a reason and a belief if and only if the reason is a reason for which the belief is held.
Public relations "has, at times, had an image problem," Mr. Tisch acknowledged, "which flows from the fact that people quite often view public relations as 'spin.' " A reason for that, he added, is that "only roughly 10 percent or fewer" of those who work in public relations "are actually members of professional associations, subject to standards of practice and codes of ethics".
Mr. Klein pointed to budget cuts and layoffs as a reason union relations soured and sentiment turned against the mayor.
For policy experts though, the lack of a clear indication that there is a relation with environmental causes is a reason not to investigate the hotspot by means of environment and health research.
"The Russian side is interested in Snowden leaving our territory, and this whole story is not a reason for worsening relations with the United States".
Although relations of reason force a shift away from the Aristotelian characterization of relations, it is important to recall that they were originally invoked to preserve the deep-seated Aristotelian conviction that no substance is a relation.
Thus, when a substance acquires a new relation without undergoing any real change this is often explained by saying that the substance acquired a mere relation of reason.[37] Finally, some medieval philosophers use relations of reason to identify a sense in which God can have accidents after all.
As we have seen, it was to avoid saying that Socrates is signified by the concept 'thought about', when he is being thought about by Simmias, that medieval philosophers invoked the notion of a relation of reason: it is not Socrates, but a relation of reason, they say, that corresponds to the concept in question, and in this way avoid the consequence that a substance such as Socrates is a relation.
