reason
suomi-englanti sanakirjareason englannista suomeksi
päätellä, järkeillä
perustella
perustelu
syy
järjen käyttö, järkevyys
järki
peruste
reason englanniksi
A cause:
(ux)
(quote-text)|title=(w): Evolution and the Meanings of Life|page=198
A motive for an action or a determination.
1806, Anonymous, Select Notes to Book XXI, in, (w), translator, ''The (w) of (w)'', volume 6 (London, F.J. du Roveray), page 37:
- This is the reason why he proposes to offer a libation, to atone for the abuse of the day by their diversions.
(RQ:James Portrait)
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.
(quote-book)|page=14|publisher=Penguin Classics|isbn=0140184945
A premise placed after its conclusion.
Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
(quote-book)
{{quote-book|en|year=1970|author=Hannah Arendt|title=On Violence|isbn=0156695006|page=62
{{quote-journal|en|date=2014-06-21|volume=411|issue=8892|magazine=The Economist
Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
16th century (w), ''Lines on his Promised Pension''
- I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme.
{{quote-text|en|year=1892|author=Arthur Conan Doyle|title=The Adventure of the Speckled Band
To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
(RQ:Northup Twelve Years)
*(RQ:Walliams Bad Dad)
To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
{{quote-text|en|year=1901|author=Ralph Connor|title=The Man from Glengarry|chapter=9
To support with reasons, as a request.
To persuade by reasoning or argument.
(RQ:Austen Emma)
''to reason down a passion''
To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
''to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon''
A plate.