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reason
  1. A cause:
    1. That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
    2. A motive for an action or a determination.
    3. An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
  2. (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
  3. (obsolete) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
  4. (mathematics) Ratio; proportion.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “China is probably the main reason for the rising demand for coal.”
      “What reason could you possibly put forth for having committed such a heinous act?”
      “To be condemned for the color or creed you were born with, really defies reason or sanity.”
reasoning
reasonableness
  1. (uncountable) The state or characteristic of being reasonable.
  2. (countable) A reasonable action or behaviour.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The client was sophisticated and able to assess from the quarterly estimates and otherwise the reasonableness of the fees charged.”
      “Quite apart from any question of reasonableness, it is plain that that is not this case.”
      “But the arguments which these two men have put together have the power of simplicity, comprehensibility, and the weight of reasonableness.”
reasonability
  1. The state or quality of being reasonable; reasonableness.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “We want to put the emphasis on legal, administrative and political reasonability designed to guarantee the exercise of citizen rights.”
      “Respect for dissension based on reasonability and interpretation of the law by various interest groups.”
      “He was not frightened because he was in a panic, divorced from the reasonability of fear.”
reasoner
  1. One who reasons.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “A very cautious reasoner may take this to be a reason to be skeptical about attributing other typical properties of birds to penguins.”
      “Such reasoning can add to the information that a reasoner has at his disposal and is therefore called ampliative.”
      “It's a paralogism, an illogical reasoning of which the reasoner is unconscious.”
reasonablenesses
reasonabilities
reasonings
  1. plural of reasoning
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The Court's reasonings, such as they are, have become a study in personal opinions and predilections.”
      “She followed him through all his sophistical reasonings with a keener reason.”
      “Accounts of imagined events are derived from an internal source and are therefore likely to contain cognitive operations, such as thoughts and reasonings.”
reasoners
reasons
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