Reason: Difference between revisions

From Advocatespedia
← Older editNewer edit →
CSV import
CSV import
Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
Line 1: Line 1:
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.
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.

Revision as of 15:31, 29 May 2024

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.

Retrieved from "https://advocatepedia.com/index.php?title=Reason&oldid=69759"