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
The cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, reasoning, and intuition; (roughly) the ability to think
And the specific distinction between man and beast is now, strictly speaking, no longer reason (the lumen naturale of the human animal) but science….
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
a rational motive for a belief or action; "the reason that war was declared"; "the grounds for their declaration"
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"
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
To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan
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"
If you reason that something is true, you decide that it is true after thinking carefully about all the facts. I reasoned that changing my diet would lower my cholesterol level `Listen,' I reasoned, `it doesn't take a genius to figure out what Adam's up to.' see also reasoned, reasoning
Reason is the faculty enabling us to apply being, to render perceptions intellective, to separate ideas from these perceptions, and to integrate and unite the ideas in judgements and reasonings The power to apply being as moral law can be called moral reason
If one thing happens by reason of another, it happens because of it. The boss retains enormous influence by reason of his position