A reason explains why you do something. The reason you go to school is to learn things (and because it's the law).
A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument.
Noun
the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"
Noun
a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion; "there is reason to believe he is lying"
Noun
an explanation of the cause of some phenomenon; "the reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly"
Noun
a justification for something existing or happening; "he had no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice"
Noun
a rational motive for a belief or action; "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration"
Noun
the state of having good sense and sound judgment; "his rationality may have been impaired"; "he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions"
Verb
think logically; "The children must learn to reason"
Verb
decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house"
Verb
present reasons and arguments
n.
A thought or a consideration offered in support of a
determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an
action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the
efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an
action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion
or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of
argument.
n.
The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is
distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher
as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense,
imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires.
Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional
faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of
first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called
the discursive or ratiocinative faculty.
n.
Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or
that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly
exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from
true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common
sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice.
n.
Ratio; proportion.
n.
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.
n.
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.
n.
To converse; to compare opinions.
v. t.
To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to
examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, I reasoned
the matter with my friend.
v. t.
To support with reasons, as a request.
v. t.
To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one
into a belief; to reason one out of his plan.
v. t.
To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; -- with
down; as, to reason down a passion.
v. t.
To find by logical processes; to explain or justify by
reason or argument; -- usually with out; as, to reason out the causes
of the librations of the moon.
Reason
I'll give him reasons for it.
The reason of the motion of the balance in a wheel watch is by the motion of the next wheel.
This reason did the ancient fathers render, why the church was called "catholic."
Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for that goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness.2.
We have no other faculties of perceiving or knowing anything divine or human, but by our five senses and our reason.
In common and popular discourse, reason denotes that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong, and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends.
Reason is used sometimes to express the whole of those powers which elevate man above the brutes, and constitute his rational nature, more especially, perhaps, his intellectual powers; sometimes to express the power of deduction or argumentation.
By the pure reason I mean the power by which we become possessed of principles.
The sense perceives; the understanding, in its own peculiar operation, conceives; the reason, or rationalized understanding, comprehends.3.
I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme.
But law in a free nation hath been ever public reason; the enacted reason of a parliament, which he denying to enact, denies to govern us by that which ought to be our law; interposing his own private reason, which to us is no law.
The most probable way of bringing France to reason would be by the making an attempt on the Spanish West Indies.4.
When anything is proved by as good arguments as a thing of that kind is capable of, we ought not, in reason, to doubt of its existence.--
Yet it were great reason, that those that have children should have greatest care of future times.
Reason
Stand still, that I may reason with you, before the Lord, of all the righteous acts of the Lord.3.
Reason
When they are clearly discovered, well digested, and well reasoned in every part, there is beauty in such a theory.2.
Men that will not be reasoned into their senses.4.
A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument.
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.
To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss;
Usage Examples
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
All my dreams are coming true all across the board for some reason.
A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular.
Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.
'Good Morning America' exploited Joan Lunden's pregnancy, but you won't see me bringing my babies on the air. The only reason I'm talking about the babies at all is that they've been with me on the show since I became pregnant. After a while, I had to acknowledge this pumpkin tummy.
All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
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Other Usage ExamplesA second reason why science cannot replace judgement is the behavior of financial markets.
1988 I also received from the city of Vienna the cross of honour for art and science. These titles and the various honors mean a great deal to me, most of all for the reason that they would mean a great deal to my parents too.
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.
According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.
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