It is this possibility for false belief that restricts us to saying that the normativity of rational requirements is merely apparent.
According to Macpherson's view, the "enough and as good" requirement is itself merely a derivative of a prior principle guaranteeing the opportunity to acquire, through labor, the necessities of life.
Again, this is not a requirement for replication; it is merely one form of a replicator.
Perhaps a violation of a requirement of instrumental coherence is merely an indicator that an agent is not functioning well in the exercise of her rational capacities, where this evaluation doesn't entail that she ought, or has reason, to be instrumentally coherent on any particular occasion (see Raz 2005a,b).
Indeed, as we've seen in §3.3, some philosophers have denied that we always ought, or have reason, to be instrumentally coherent; they've argued that rational requirements are only apparently normative, or are merely evaluative.
The reason might be that there is no return or profit from the investment; it is merely a requirement of the Clean Air Regulation of 1978.
Third, (§3.3) we might deny that one necessarily violates a requirement of reason in being instrumentally incoherent; perhaps the normativity of instrumental coherence is merely apparent, or the requirement merely evaluative (it may be a standard of proper functioning without giving anyone reason to comply with it).
Using my platform for a piece like this is merely the minimum requirement as a conscientious Earth-dweller.
Attorney General Maura Healey said her office is merely abiding by the law's evidence requirements.
The reactor equivalent thermal conductivity is merely 1.3 W/(m K), which still has not meet practical requirement.
