Sentence examples for weak reason from inspiring English sources

To the extent it provides any reason to favor priority monism, it is a weak reason indeed.

I realize that "it'll be better later" is a pretty weak reason not to recommend something, but I have to resort to it now.

If positive desert provides a strong reason for action, then there might be little to no need for non-retributive reasons to justify punishment; if positive desert provides a weak reason to punish, then punishment may often not be justified unless there are strong non-retributive reasons to punish.

For example, to have the highest degree of moral status is for there to be very strong reasons of all three types, an intermediate level of moral status (e.g., the status of a dog) might involve some reason not to kill the being but no reason to aid it or treat it fairly, while the lowest degree of moral status would involve a very weak reason of just one type.

In spite of this, 93percentt of people let him cut on this third trial, only a 1percentt drop from when he had a weak reason ("I'm in a rush") and a 33percentt improvement vs. the first test.

Do you consider that a very strong, strong or weak or very weak reason to support her candidacy for president?" "I'm going to read you a few criticisms opponents might make about Barack Obama.

Although "because" may appear to have some sort of brainwashing effect on people at Xerox machines, it's only really a matter of reasoning: Even giving weak reasons has been shown to be more persuasive than giving no reason at all.

"Nothing has emerged to prove they are part of anything," Mr. Naccari said, adding that the reasons why they are still in custody are "weak reasons".

This is an argument against Strong Reasons Necessity and Weak Reasons Necessity.

This is an argument against Strong Reasons Sufficiency and Weak Reasons Sufficiency.

For this reason, Hartshorne says that Whitehead rejected the analogy for "weak reasons" (Hahn 1991, 642).