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The Backward-Looking-Reasons Objection
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The backward-looking-reasons objection: promises made and debts incurred give reasons from the past, and a theory facing only forward cannot see them.
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You promised your late friend to tend the garden. Utility finds better uses for the hour; the promise still pulls, quietly, from behind.