Sentence examples for held that reason from inspiring English sources

For Locke also held that "reason must judge" whether or not something is a revelation and more generally that "Reason must be our last judge and guide in everything".

In rabbinic discussions of the nature of truth, it was generally held that reason alone was necessary but insufficient; prophecy could supply what was missing.

Hume held that reason cannot command or move the human will.

Albert held that reason has a role to play in religion, but there are questions where philosophy has no final answer and revelation must decide.

Aquinas held that reason, in knowing these principles, is participating in the eternal law, which is in the mind of God (Summa Theologiae I, q.91. a.2).

Aristotle held that reason makes us distinctively human and that our reason and social nature compel recognition of the desirability of the ethical life for human beings (see Nivison, 1996 for comparisons of Aristotle and Mencius; and Yearley, 1990 for comparisons of Acquinas and Mencius).

Hume holds that "reason is the discovery of truth and falsehood" (p. 458).

The primacy of practical reason is a key element of Kant's response to the crisis of the Enlightenment, since he holds that reason deserves the sovereign authority entrusted to it by the Enlightenment only on this basis.

The first of these, often referred to as internalism, holds that reasons for action must be grounded in an agent's prior motivations (Williams 1981).

Someone who holds that reasons are true propositions or states of affairs and who also holds that there are no irreducibly indexical propositions or states of affairs (only indexical 'modes of presentation' of such propositions or states of affairs) will have trouble making use of the reason-statement version of the distinction for just this reason.

Because he held that the reason for believing mathematics is that it is needed as part of physical theory, his reasons for believing in numbers and the like are not in principle different from those for believing in electrons; thus, Quine's Platonism does not really compromise his physicalism.