Sentence examples for form of reason from inspiring English sources

It defies all form of reason or logic.

John, in his classroom, speaks of Don Quixote as living in a reality of his own making; he speaks of illusion as a higher form of reason, and he himself chooses risk as his own form of sanity.

For Evans, however, "faith is against reason only in the sense that it runs into conflict with a concrete form of reason that is damaged" (153).

See Mayhew (2010, pp. 212-213) for discussion, including the suggestion (to which he does not commit himself) that reason alone (that is, unensouled reason or the Form of reason) may be prior to soul.

He is as much a sentimentalist as Hutcheson, believing that judgments about virtue and rightness depend on our capacity for sympathy rather than on some form of reason (or on a distinct moral sense) and holding that being virtuous depends on feelings and feelingful motives like benevolence and sympathy rather than on reason.

But a main thrust of Deising's work is in articulating the drawbacks resulting from an over-emphasis on the most pervasive form of reason in America, and that behind strategic games and game theory; economic rationality.

If you believe that stories are the most appropriate form of reason-giving, then those who use conventions and technical accounts will seem morally indifferent — regardless of whether you agree with them.

More important, the attacks on him don't, for the most part, take the form of reasoned disagreement.

Our airlines campaign has taken the form of reasoned argument, allied to letter-writing by our hundreds of thousands of supporters (the BUAV is the leading organisation in the world campaigning solely against animal testing).

As set out above (see section 5.5), Fischer defends a mechanism-based, actual sequence form of reasons-responsiveness.

Or other forms of reason that derive from intuition, as in the freedom to pursue a hunch and possibly come back with an insight.