Definition of "motivating" []

• Effectively providing an incentive. (adjective)
• Present participle of motivate. (verb)

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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."
• "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."
• "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."