(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) For this reason, these observations should not be disregarded.
(2) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(3) The results of our microscopic model confirm that the continuum hypothesis used in our previous macroscopic model is reasonable.
(4) The use of glucagon in double-contrast studies of the colon has been recommended for various reasons, one of which is to facilitate reflux of barium into the terminal ileum.
(5) The reason for the rise in Android's market share on both sides of the Atlantic is the increased number of devices that use the software.
(6) Reasonably good agreement is seen between theoretical apparent rate-vesicle concentration relationships and those measured experimentally.
(7) Splenectomy had been performed for traumatic, hematologic or immunologic reasons.
(8) The most common reasons cited for relapse included craving, social situations, stress, and nervousness.
(9) "We do not yet live in a society where the police or any other officers of the law are entitled to detain people without reasonable justification and demand their papers," Gardiner wrote.
(10) Even if it were not the case that police use a variety of tricks to keep recorded crime figures low, this data would still represent an almost meaningless measure of the extent of crime in society, for the simple reason that a huge proportion of crimes (of almost all sorts) have always gone unreported.
(11) The mechanism by which gp55 causes increased erythroblastosis and ultimately leukaemia is unknown, but a reasonable suggestion is that gp55 can mimic the action of erythropoietin by binding to its receptor (Epo-R), thereby triggering prolonged proliferation of erythroid cells.
(12) Both Types I and II collagen are important constituents of the affected tissues, and thus defective collagens are reasonable candidates for the primary abnormality in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS).
(13) Reasons for non-acceptance do not indicate any major difficulties in the employment of such staff in general practice, at least as far as the patients are concerned.
(14) For that reason we determine basal serum pepsinogen I (PG I) levels in 25 ulcerous patients and 75% of their offspring and to a control group matched by age and sex.
(15) October 23, 2013 3.55pm BST Another reason to be concerned about the global economy - Canada's central bank has slashed its economic forecasts for the US.
(16) A series of 241 patients with subphrenic abscess was analysed to seek reasons for the continuing mortality.
(17) Still, cynics might say they can identify at least one reason it all might fail: namely form.
(18) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
(19) The reason I liked them was because they were a band, and my dad had a band.
(20) "Speed is not the main reason for building the new railway.
Stoicism
Definition:
(n.) The opinions and maxims of the Stoics.
(n.) A real or pretended indifference to pleasure or pain; insensibility; impassiveness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Perhaps air pollution hasn’t been solved because no one makes a fuss: scarier than the smog in Delhi , Kolkata and London is the stoicism of residents for whom bad air has become part of daily life.
(2) July 1, 2014 9.11am BST Stoicism in the face of adversity.
(3) Of course on social media people are always promising to rip my arms and legs off and do all kinds of things, but there has been nothing I would take seriously.” There appears to be only one limit to his stoicism.
(4) When I look at their faces, I see nothing but bravado, whether it’s Beyoncé’s stoicism, Kerry Washington’s smirk or Serena’s confidence.
(5) Chibok kidnapping: stoicism as girls taken by Boko Haram are remembered Read more Boko Haram has been fighting to impose sharia law across Nigeria’s north for the last six years, massacring civilians and kidnapping thousands of women and children, most notoriously a group of more than 200 schoolgirls in Chibok.
(6) The former England coach did, at least, receive an apology for a protracted public humiliation borne with dignity and stoicism.
(7) Stoicism offers the cybernetic epistemologist a solid base for theory.
(8) Their apparent stoicism, however, is deceptive: though several people I've spoken to have made it clear that they are staying put, for the Bakers the prospect of another flood is a nightmarish prospect.
(9) To show that would not fit with the romantic view of stoicism in the face of adversity.
(10) In particular, there is the stoicism that teaches us to take mortality and the impermanence of all things as cues to detach ourselves from the ups and downs of life and embrace an accepting tranquility.
(11) This sort of stoicism may be necessary in the months to come.
(12) The patients' attitude toward their lesions was one of bland unconcern and stoicism.
(13) After Mandela's release, his stoicism proved a boon.
(14) In prison, stoicism was the only way to survive with his sanity intact.
(15) As long as people want our help there, we will have a presence there.” Kalyapin’s stoicism about the threat of violence is at least partly down to his past, navigating the violent business climate of Russia in the 1990s.
(16) A third man, his jaw clamped shut on his misery, gazes at the photographer with numb stoicism.
(17) She is humbled by the patient's grit and stoicism, and can only listen with a lump in her throat.
(18) Much bitterness but also stoicism; markets impressed by Irish resolve to bite the austerity bullet Portugal Economic growth: 0.5% this year, 0.7% next National debt as percentage of GDP: 85.8% Budget deficit as percentage of GDP: 8% Cuts: Income, corporate and VAT tax rises coupled with spending cuts aimed at halving budget deficit by next year Outlook: Cross-party consensus has shored up José Sócrates' vulnerable minority government.
(19) Tony Blair last night praised the "stoicism and resilience" of Londoners in the face of yesterday's onslaught on the capital's transport system by bombers he implied were Islamist terrorists.
(20) According to former reports, ALS patients have a reputation of heroic stoicism with a low frequency of depression.