Sentence examples for if reason from inspiring English sources

The date is here important, since this Quodlibet was disputed after the famous propositio magistralis of 1285, i.e. the proposition conceded by the Parisian Masters of Theology on the occasion of Giles of Rome's rehabilitation: "si ratio recta, et voluntas recta" ("if reason is right, then the will is also right").

Gersonides believes that reason and Torah cannot be in opposition: "if reason causes to affirm doctrines that are incompatible with the literal sense of Scripture, we are not prohibited by the Torah to pronounce the truth on these matters, for reason is not incompatible with the true understanding of the Torah" (ibid).. Thus reason is upheld as a criterion for achieving truth.

Kant states this very clearly in "What Does it Mean to Orient Oneself in Thinking?": "if reason will not subject itself to the laws it gives itself, it has to bow under the yoke of laws given by another; for without any law, nothing not even nonsense can play its game for long" (8 145).

Hugo Mercier, who works at a French research institute in Paris, and Dan Sperber, based at the Central European University in Budapest, pointed out in their book The Enigma of Reason that if reason was a trait evolved over millions of years, like walking or sight, why did it seem so very unfit for purpose?

The problem is that to some it seemed unclear whether progress would in fact ensue if reason enjoyed full sovereignty over traditional authorities; or whether unaided reasoning would instead lead straight to materialism, fatalism, atheism, skepticism (Bxxxiv), or even libertinism and authoritarianism (8 146).

Reason, then, could counteract an impulse to action generated by a passion if and only if reason could itself generate a contrary impulse.

He said he believed Calvi killed himself, saying that "if reasons to commit suicide exist, Calvi had them all".

Money, to be sure, if "Reasons" succeeds.

"If reasons arise to talk to him, we will do so".

It would be nice if reasoned argument would do, but as we've seen that's just not the case.

"(If) reasons are not told.