Sentence examples for possess reason from inspiring English sources

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He commented that it is not necessary that an emperor be a Christian to rule, only that he possess reason.

Furthermore, reason is binary: all objects either possess reason, or lack it.

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A man whose soul possesses reason has complete control over good and evil.

One well known account of control, employed by Levy, holds that a person is responsible just in case she acts on a mechanism that is moderately responsive to reasons (including moral reasons), such that were she to possess such reasons this same mechanism would act upon those reasons in at least one possible world (Fischer and Ravizza 1999).

"That a hybrid should possess more reason, memory, obstinacy, social affection, powers of muscular endurance, and length of life, than either of its parents, seems to indicate that art has here outdone nature".

Duhem does talk at times of a perfect form of science, one without personal or national character: "Quite often the great masters possess a reason in which all the faculties are so harmoniously proportioned that their very perfect doctrines are exempt from all individual character, as from all national character.

2. Indigenous peoples have the right to own, use, develop and control the lands, territories and resources that they possess by reason of traditional ownership or other traditional occupation or use, as well as those which they have otherwise acquired.

Wait a minute — does Bieber have reason to possess a couple dozen eggs?

Plato's argument demonstrates that there are gods by identifying a certain sort of soul – one that possesses reason and governs the heavens – as a god.

But O'Neill also possessed his own reasons for signing up.

But in Shane Geraghty and the latest two likely lads from Newcastle, Toby Flood and Mathew Tait, England suddenly possess three reasons not to panic completely even if the captain's 35-year-old hamstring keeps creaking.

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