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Deborahjeong Posted 8 years ago
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What is the phrase "suggesting ways to structure the competing considerations" modifying?

"In such cases, attending to the modes of moral reasoning that we characteristically accept can usefully expand the set of moral information from which we start, suggesting ways to structure the competing considerations." (source: Moral Reasoning By Henry S. Richardson)
What is the phrase "suggesting ways to structure the competing considerations" modifying? -Is it modifying the set of moral information? -Is it connected to the phrase we start? (i.g. we start from moral information suggesting ways to~)
Could you help me clarify it? Thank you always.
  

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) can suggest ways to structure the competing considerations.

  • ) can suggest ways to structure the competing considerations.
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In such cases, attending to the modes of moral reasoning that we characteristically accept can usefully expand the set of moral information from which we start, and that (attending to the modes...) can suggest ways to structure the competing considerations.

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deborahjeong"In such cases, attending to the modes of moral reasoning that we characteristically accept can usefully expand the set of moral information from which we start, suggesting ways to structure the competing considerations."

I read it as meaning this:

"In such cases, attending to the modes of moral reasoning that we characteristically accept

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