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Definition reason

Etymology

Borrowed from Anglo-Norman raisun (Old French raison), from Latin rati?, from ratus, past participle of reor (“reckon”). Doublet of ration and ratio.

Noun

reason (countable and uncountable, plural reasons)

  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.
    4. (logic) A premise placed after its conclusion.
  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, obsolete) Ratio; proportion.

Verb

reason (third-person singular simple present reasons, present participle reasoning, simple past and past participle reasoned)

  1. (intransitive) To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational
  2. (intransitive) To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
  3. (intransitive, obsolete) To converse; to compare opinions.
  4. (transitive, intransitive) To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
  5. (transitive, rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
  6. (transitive) To persuade by reasoning or argument.
  7. (transitive, with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
  8. (transitive, usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

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