Sentence examples for capacities to reason from inspiring English sources

Legal competence in health care requires being able to communicate a choice, understanding information one is given, appreciation of one's circumstances and mental capacities to reason and deliberate [ 3, 4].

Does the capacity to reason mean a rejection of religion?

By Jill Lepore In "The Internet of Us," Michael P. Lynch sees threats to our capacity to reason.

The capacity to reason and criticize, to doubt, must be learned at school.

To all of these we have added the fathomless complexities of toolmaking, art-making, language, and the capacity to reason.

For many years, our mother tongue was claimed to be a "prison house" that constrained our capacity to reason.

In his view votes, like morals and values, have little to do with one's capacity to reason and improve.

But it is important not to exaggerate, because to do so is to lose touch with reality and the capacity to reason.

A smaller number think that we figure the rules out for ourselves, using our capacity to reason and choosing a philosophical system to live by.

"NK3," by Michael Tolkin (Atlantic), is an intricate and cleverly constructed account of the aftermath of a North Korean chemical attack; the NK3 of the title has entirely destroyed its victims' memories and has vastly diminished their capacity to reason.

But the mind watching the elephant is making absurd calculations, lying to itself, trying to reason, and then abandoning its own capacity to reason (or obeying the illogic of the world it lives in, the logic of the Englishman needing to look tough at all costs before his "subjects").