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verbpresent reasons and arguments
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"the reason that war was declared"nouna rational motive for a belief or action
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"he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions"nounthe state of having good sense and sound judgment
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"We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house"verbdecide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion
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"we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil"nounthe capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination
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"they had good reason to rejoice"nouna justification for something existing or happeningtype of:
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"there is reason to believe he is lying"nouna fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusiontype of:
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"the reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly"nounan explanation of the cause of some phenomenontype of:
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"The children must learn to reason"verbthink logically
Definition that contains reason
- occasion reason
- logic reasoned and reasonable judgment
- deduct reason by deduction; establish by deduction
- induce reason or establish by induction
- deduction reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
- conjecture reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence
- induction reasoning from detailed facts to general principles
- derive reason by deduction; establish by deduction
- deduce reason by deduction; establish by deduction
- synthesis reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)