Reason

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.

   “The reason this tree fell is that it had rotted.”

2. isim A motive for an action or a determination.

   “He made reason with his boss about taking a day off.”

3. isim 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.

   “I have forgotten the reason he gave for not travelling by air. I felt sure that it was not the correct reason, and that he suffered from a heart trouble which he kept to himself.”

4. isim A premise placed after its conclusion.
5. isim Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.

   “Mankind should develop reason above all other virtues.”

6. isim Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.

   “16th century Edmund Spenser, Lines on his Promised Pension I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme.”

7. isim Ratio; proportion.
8. fiil To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational.

   “"I had," said he, "come to an entirely erroneous conclusion which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data. […]"”

9. fiil To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.

   “Still my spirit was not broken. I indulged the anticipation of escape, and that speedily. It was impossible, I reasoned, that men could be so unjust as to detain me as a slave, when the truth of my case was known.”

10. fiil To converse; to compare opinions.
11. fiil To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.

    “I reasoned the matter with my friend.”

12. fiil To support with reasons, as a request.
13. fiil To persuade by reasoning or argument.

    “to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan”

14. fiil To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.

    “to reason down a passion”

15. fiil To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

    “to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon”

16. isim A wall plate.
17. özel isim A surname.