Associations to the word «Reason»

REASON, noun. A cause:

REASON, noun. That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.

REASON, noun. A motive for an action or a determination.

REASON, noun. 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.

REASON, noun. (uncountable) Rational thinking (or the capacity for it; the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.

REASON, noun. (obsolete) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.

REASON, noun. (mathematics) (obsolete) Ratio; proportion.

REASON, verb. (intransitive) 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.

REASON, verb. (intransitive) 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.

REASON, verb. (intransitive) To converse; to compare opinions.

REASON, verb. (transitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.

REASON, verb. (transitive) (rare) To support with reasons, as a request.

REASON, verb. (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.

REASON, verb. (transitive) (with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.

REASON, verb. (transitive) (usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

REASON, noun. A rational motive for a belief or action; "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration".

REASON, noun. An explanation of the cause of some phenomenon; "the reason a steady state was never reached was that the back pressure built up too slowly".

REASON, noun. The capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination; "we are told that man is endowed with reason and capable of distinguishing good from evil".

REASON, noun. The state of having good sense and sound judgment; "his rationality may have been impaired"; "he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions".

REASON, noun. A justification for something existing or happening; "he had no cause to complain"; "they had good reason to rejoice".

REASON, noun. A fact that logically justifies some premise or conclusion; "there is reason to believe he is lying".

REASON, verb. Decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion; "We reasoned that it was cheaper to rent than to buy a house".

REASON, verb. Present reasons and arguments.

REASON, verb. Think logically; "The children must learn to reason".