reasons
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Definitions ofreasons
- A cause:
- Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
Example: "Mankind should develop reason above all other virtues."
- Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
- Ratio; proportion.
- To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational
- To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; 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.
Example: "I reasoned the matter with my friend."
- To support with reasons, as a request.
- To persuade by reasoning or argument.
Example: "to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan"
- (with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
Example: "to reason down a passion"
- (usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
Example: "to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon"
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