Secondly, for something to be able to claim legitimate authority, it must be capable of forming an opinion on how its subjects ought to behave, distinct from the subjects' own reasoning about their reasons for action; authority requires some authorship.
It challenges the new atheists, who see themselves involved in a war of reason against faith and who have an unwarranted faith in the power of pure reason and in the purity of their own reasoning.
In short, we can use our own reasoning as a model of the reasoning of beings that reason the way we do.
However, when LAs explained their reason for an answer, students were least likely to respond with their own reasoning or background statements (p < 0.05, chi-square test; Figure 3).
Mr. Achmat acknowledged the same, fidgeting as if uncomfortable in his own reasoning.
But Strawson's own reasoning here is hardly an effective advertisement for philosophy.
And his own reasoning in these pages tends to be specious or skewed.
So, by our own reasoning, the answer to the "how" question couldn't be more straightforward.
The contemplation group, prompted to consider more carefully their own reasoning, had been led to take a slower, cooler approach.
Coach Jeff Van Gundy, relying on his own reasoning, would not commit to a lineup yet, waiting to see how Ward responded to today's workout.
Under their own reasoning, the appropriate course of action would be to remand to allow more specific procedures for implementing the legislature's uniform general standard to be established.
