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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.
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.
Nor does it seem to exclude a variety of ontological views about reasons as the reason-statement-based version of the distinction did.
This is not to say that there are not ontologies which would provide a framework in which the reason-statement version of the distinction could be useful.
The reason-statement-based approach to the distinction is tenable on certain ontological views about reasons but seems useless on a wide variety of other plausible ontological views about reasons.
On the reason-statement-based version of the distinction, the reason is agent-relative only if a full statement of the reason must involve pronominal reference to the agent for whom it is a reason.
Second, those who hold that reasons are just facts but also hold that there really are irreducibly indexical facts can also make sense of the reason-statement-based version of the distinction.
We should therefore consider whether either the reason-statement-based version of the distinction or the perspective-based version of the distinction are more likely to be available to particularists as well while still doing roughly the same sort of important philosophical work that Nagel and Parfit had in mind.
First, those who hold that a reason is not just a fact but a fact plus a particular mode of presentation (a particular way of grasping the fact, as it were) might well be able to make good use of the reason-statement-based version of the distinction.
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