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.
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.
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.
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 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.
To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan.
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.
as defined by Hume, it is the faculty of immediate intuition and demonstration (e.g., discovering the relations of ideas - as in mathematics).
The power of the mind which perceives the truth and validity of derived ideas, judgments, and principles on the basis of indirect and mediate evidence.
Reason is the faculty enabling us to apply being, to render perceptions intellective, to separate ideas from these perceptions, and to integrate and unite the ideas in judgements and reasonings. The power to apply being as moral law can be called moral reason.
The faculty that allows us to process information in a way that is useful at reaching factual conclusions. It makes use of empirical observation, logic, and the testing of beliefs.
a rational motive for a belief or action; "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration"
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"
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"
a fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion; "there is reason to believe he is lying"
decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house"
present reasons and arguments
think logically; "The children must learn to reason"
an end (ending event) or consequence that motivates someone to make a starting event happen, such as keeping the cheese in the box, that will cause the consequence
(1) The final or ultimate cause as opposed to prior or subsequent causes; (2) the ability to know things without reliance on empirical evidence; (3) the ability to make inferences, develop and judge arguments, and discover explanations.
A rational ground or motive; a sufficient ground of explanation or a logical defense; something as a principle or law that supports a conclusion or explains a fact. More generally, a power of the intellect to seek and achieve its own universal truth.
in the first Critique, the highest faculty of the human subject, to which all other faculties are subordinated. It abstracts completely from the conditions of sensibility. The second Critique examines the form of our desires in order to construct a system based on the faculty of reason (= the practical standpoint). Reason's primary function is practical; its theoretical function, though often believed to be more important, should be viewed as having a secondary importance. (Cf. judgment.)
The capacity for logical and rational thought.
a motive cause or justification; the ability to think, understand, and draw conclusions.
A statement that supports another statement (known as a conclusion), justifies it, or makes it more probable.
1) [verb] Thinking in a manner consistent with the relationship between elements and between elements and the whole in a given system. 2) [noun] The ability to think in a manner consistent with the relationship between elements and between elements and the whole in a given system
(Also premise.) A claim given in support of a conclusion.
right-mindedness; thinking in accordance with the Holy Spirit, choosing to follow His guidance and learn His lessons of forgiveness, seeing sinlessness rather than sin, and choosing vision instead of judgment.(Note -- not to be confused with rationalism.)
A term used in philosophy and other human sciences to refer to the higher cognitive faculties of the human mind. It describes a type of thought or aspect of thought, especially abstract thought, and the ability to think abstractly, which is felt to be especially human. The concept of reason is connected to language, as reflected in the meanings of the Greek word " logos", later to be translated by Latin "ratio" and then French "raison", from which the English word. Reason is thus a very important word in western intellectual history and shares much of its heritage with the now separate words logic and rationality.
In the philosophy of arguments, reason is the ability of the human mind to form and operate on concepts in abstraction, in varied accordance with rationality and logic —terms with which reason shares heritage. Reason has traditionally been claimed as distinctly human, and not to be found elsewhere in the animal world. However, recent studies in this area show that, in lower levels, animals are capable of some rational thinking.