Sentence examples for by reason of something from inspiring English sources

But the being something has by virtue of numerical identity is "greater" than the being it has by reason of something it shares with another.

As Scotus puts it: "if an entity is finite or infinite, it is so not by reason of something accidental to itself, but because it has its own intrinsic degree of finite or infinite perfection" (Ordinatio 1, d. 1, pars 1, q. 1 2, n. 142).

They may decide that Mr. Harris is guilty of murder, not guilty by reason of self-defense, or guilty of something in between, a lesser crime known as passion/provocation manslaughter.

Innocent by reason of insanity?

Not guilty by reason of insanity.

It is, at least originally, sentiment that discerns it although Hume's arguments leave it open that discovering by reason the tendency of something to give rise to sentiment could be a source of moral knowledge (Sturgeon 2001).

As Jonathan Swift was right to say, you can't reason people out of something they weren't reasoned into.

Distract yourself by thinking of something else or doing something.

The first half of the century was fascinated by the idea of reason as something historical.

You can only reason a person out of something they initially have reasoned themselves into.

We must "make use of reason, something which not all media outlets tend to do".