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Earlier, I have distinguished between the ordinary and the technical use of the expression ‘reason for action’. A clear case of the latter is the use of that notion in the analysis of other concepts — for instance, that of a legal norm, or that of the acceptance or justification of a decision. The technical use presupposes a precise meaning of ‘reason for action’ since otherwise statements containing the expression cannot fulfil the cognitive function assigned to them.
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Redondo, C. (1999). Reasons for Action — Second Part. In: Reasons for Action and the Law. Law and Philosophy Library, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9141-6_3
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