Sentence examples for hold reason from inspiring English sources

Having said this, there does remain a sense in which certain rights have always existed where there was any society, even though it may take many generations for these rights to be recognised by and granted to anyone — "just as one may hold reason to be eternal, and yet hold that it takes time for this or that being to become rational" (LPPO 103).

As against this doctrine, rationalism holds reason to be a faculty that can lay hold of truths beyond the reach of sense perception, both in certainty and generality.

"In general, we believe that these commonly held reasons for defeat should be treated with caution and require deeper analysis," the review said.

This book holds reasons why that might be so – and the poignant chapter on the "scholarship boy" is not to be missed.

Beckett writes: "In general, we believe that these commonly held reasons for defeat should be treated with caution and require deeper analysis.

That is, this tradition holds reasoned analysis to be necessary to understand the nature of phenomena (or rather, their lack of nature).

Notice that a lot of the advantages above sound similar to the generally held reasons that young tech startups outperform large, slowing moving public companies.

With the universally held belief that surgeons were under pressure from patients, all these factors appeared to be strongly held reasons for referral for arthroscopy.

They also hold that reason endorses acting morally.

With 2012 just about over, we in New York have reason to hold heads high.

Further than that, Abelard holds, human reason cannot go; but reason validates the analysis (strictly speaking only a "likeness" or analogy) as far as it can go.