It appealed to reason rather than feeling.
There is transparency, rigour and reason, rather than secrecy.
Lincoln's political case relied on reason rather than emotion.
Abstraction, universality, and reason, rather than embodied experience, govern the validity of truth claims.
It was for that reason, rather than their unforgiving bleakness, that they never ran.
Representative Sid Rosenbaum, however, took exception to Paine's stated preference for reason rather than religion.
Scientists should be "the voice of reason, rather than dissent, in the public arena".
A candidate whose principal faith is in pure reason, rather than experience, frightens most voters.
Machiavelli's political philosophy, which completed the secularization of politics begun by Marsilius, was based on reason rather than religion.
Similarly, scholars like St. Thomas Aquinas and Moses Maimonides encountered God through reason rather than through ecstasy.
Monbiot selectively quotes me: "Scientists should be 'the voice of reason, rather than dissent, in the public arena'.
