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Definition of 'reason'Noun
( en-noun)
A cause:
# That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
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#* 1996 , (w), : Evolution and the Meanings of Life , page 198:
- There is a reason why so many should be symmetrical: The selective advantage in a symmetrical complex is enjoyed by all the subunits
# A motive for an action or a determination.
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#* 1806 , Anonymous, Select Notes to Book XXI, in, (Alexander Pope), translator, The (Odyssey) of (Homer) , volume 6 (London, F.J. du Roveray), page 37:
- This is the reason why he proposes to offer a libation, to atone for the abuse of the day by their diversions.
#* 1881 , (Henry James), (The Portrait of a Lady) , chapter 10:
- Ralph Touchett, for reasons best known to himself, had seen fit to say that Gilbert Osmond was not a good fellow
# An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
#* 1966 , (Graham Greene), ((Penguin Classics) edition, ISBN 0140184945), page 14:
- I have forgotten the reason' he gave for not travelling by air. I felt sure that it was not the correct ' reason , and that he suffered from a heart trouble which he kept to himself.
(label) Rational]] thinking (or the capacity for it; the cognitive [[faculty|faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
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* 1970 , (Hannah Arendt), On Violence (ISBN 0156695006), page 62:
- And the specific distinction between man and beast is now, strictly speaking, no longer reason (the lumen naturale of the human animal) but science
*{{quote-magazine|date=2014-06-21|volume=411|issue=8892|magazine=(The Economist)
|title= Magician’s brain
|passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason . The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
(label) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
* (rfdate) (Edmund Spenser):
- I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme.
Ratio; proportion.
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Synonyms
* (that which causes) cause
* (motive for an action) rationale, motive
* (thought offered in support) excuse
Derived terms
* age of reason
* everything happens for a reason
* for some reason
* for no good reason
* for XYZ reason
* have reason
* in reason
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* instrumental reason
* reasonability
* reasonable
* reasonableness
* reasonist
* reasonless
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* rhyme or reason
* stand to reason
* unreason
* with reason
* within reason
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Verb
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To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.
Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth propositions and the inferences from them; to argue.
To converse; to compare opinions.
To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
- I reasoned the matter with my friend.
(rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
To persuade by reasoning or argument.
- to reason''' one into a belief; to '''reason one out of his plan
To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
- to reason down a passion
To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
- to reason''' out the causes of the librations of the moon
Derived terms
* reasoner
* reason out
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