[…] the principall mans or manerie of thame lordis Erilis of Orchadie hes beine syndrie tymis brint and redactit till nocht […]

Where any person has died whilst being, or suspected of being, a case or carrier or contact of an infectious disease, the Director may by order prohibit the conduct of a wake over the body of that person or impose such conditions as he thinks fit on the conduct of such wake […]

Voltbot: 'WE HAVE PREPARED YOU, STRIPPED YOU OF YOUR WEAK STEAMBOT SHELL. YOU ARE ALREADY MORE PART OF US THAN YOU ARE YOURSELF. BZZT WE WILL BE INVINCIBLE! THE VOLTBOT WILL RISE AND RULE.'

Psychologists have developed quasi-causal theories to explain the directedness of behaviour, to answer the question ‘Why are certain sorts of reasons operative?’ and these theories may well have insinuated themselves into ordinary language as part of the meaning of “motive”. It might well be, therefore, that people who are slightly sophisticated by psychological theories assume some such necessary connexion [between giving the motive for an action and making any assertions of a causal kind about a man’s emotional state].