Sometimes the mean of reason, properly assessed by someone of true virtue, calls for heroic virtue (say, immense courage) far beyond conventional measures or expectations of reasonableness, moderation, and the like.
"He is a man of reasonableness," Puzo wrote of The Godfather.
A serious limitation of this approach is that it does not offer the consumer sufficient means of performing reasonableness checks to verify that the provider is not accidentally or maliciously contaminating the evidence.
But in also holding that the concept of reasonableness itself meant that there could be exceptions, that decision, Wilson v. Arkansas, left many questions unanswered.
See id., at ___ (slip op., at 15) ("The fact that we permit courts of appeals to adopt a presumption of reasonableness does not mean that courts may adopt a presumption of unreasonableness").3 Even the Government has acknowledged that such a presumption would not be consistent with Booker.
Although this demand may exceed the measure of reasonableness for humans, it is meant literally and is repeated in other parts of the New Testament.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor observed at the argument, "At some point, empirical evidence has to mean something in terms of us judging the question of reasonableness".
Sotomayor, who is the Court's lone former trial judge, insisted that "at some point empirical evidence has to mean something in terms of us judging the question of reasonableness".
All genuine versions of public reason liberalism share the standard conception of reasonableness.
Like I said, a beacon of reasonableness.
"I think that passes the test of reasonableness," he said.
