Sentence examples for means of reason from inspiring English sources

Schelling divided philosophy into a negative philosophy, which developed the idea of God by means of reason alone, and, in contrast, a positive philosophy, which showed the reality of this idea by reasoning a posteriori from the fact of the world to God as its creator.

Albertus distinguished the way to knowledge by revelation and faith from the way of philosophy and of science; the latter follows the authorities of the past according to their competence, but it also makes use of observation and proceeds by means of reason and intellect to the highest degrees of abstraction.

These commandments, "planted in the heart", were known by means of reason even before the giving of the Torah.

He believes that there are demonstrable moral relations of fitness and unfitness that we discover a priori by means of reason alone.

They then paraphrase the four rules given by Descartes in Part Two of the Discourse on the Method, saying that although the rules are "often difficult to follow," yet "it is always helpful to bear them in mind, and to heed them as much as possible whenever we try to find the truth by means of reason" (Logic, 234 39).

The agreement that the participants in the conversation find is based on respect for the others and on the insight that religious differences, even though they can be meaningfully discussed, cannot be resolved in a philosophical discourse by means of reason alone.

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.

Therefore, "without a means of connecting reason explanations to their underlying causal processes in an intelligible fashion there is nothing to account for their explanatory force if such explanations are taken to be a species of casual explanations" (Campbell 1998, 29).

As such a logic of action provides a means to reason about programs, or more precisely, the execution of programs and their effects.

The title means literally "occurrence of reason," where "buju" refers to "reason" and "tu" to "occurrence".

In the Franco-Belgian study the majority of patients stated only one reason for encounter, in the German study the mean number of reasons for encounter/patient was 1.5.