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I stumbled upon a phrase along the lines of:

the results are general enough for all participants will be able to reason about them

Is the phrase correct? I'm pretty sure it should be correct (reputable source), but I don't understand its structure; does 'for' here have its standard meaning + something like a 'so that' meaning?

Or otherwise how should I grammatically/syntactically interpret the phrase?

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The for can be used as a conjunction to mean since or because (in a literary style) and if that was the intention there should be a comma before it.

The results are general enough, for all participants will be able to reason about them.

The sentence could have a different typo error though, and should be

The results are general enough for all participants to be able to reason about them.

In the second example, for is used as a preposition.

As asked in the question, for can also mean "so that":

The results are general enough so that all participants will be able to reason about them.

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