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adjective causing motion or impelling to action; providing a motive{2}.
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adjective Effectively providing an incentive.
verb Present participle of motivate.
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adjective impelling to action
noun the act of motivating; providing incentive
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An early critic of Williams is E.J. Bond in his book Reason and Value (1983) where he urges, echoing Frankena's earlier critique of internalism, that Williams 'argument is undermined if we distinguish clearly between what he calls motivating reasons and grounding reasons.
In an interview set to air Monday on CNN's The Situation Room, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano was asked whether Obama's status as the first African-American president is playing any role in motivating anti-government groups.
The goal to be the first country to send a man to the moon proved instrumental in motivating this country to focus on K-12 education on the math and the sciences.
Clearly, scientifically formulated principles of morality are much more powerful in motivating public school students who have no religious foundation to make use of them in daily living because these ideas about how to behave are consistent with the scientific worldview which pervades everything else they learn at school.
I suspect the "everything is going to be OK so the government can just stay out of it" bias played a key role in motivating many conservatives and libertarians to be favorably disposed toward skeptical findings about global warming.
But he served an equally important function in motivating future engineers and astronauts as a lecturer at Space Camp for years after his retirement from NASA.
The goal to be the first country to send a man to the moon proved instrumental in motivating this country to focus on K-12 education on the math and the sciences.
But he served an equally important function in motivating future engineers and astronauts as a lecturer at Space Camp for years after his retirement from NASA.
The goal to be the first country to send a man to the moon proved instrumental in motivating this country to focus on K-12 education on the math and the sciences.
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