The quandary facing the Knicks and Carmelo Anthony is so great, so confounding, that even Vizzini — the philosophizing, fast-talking Sicilian genius in "The Princess Bride" — would have trouble reasoning through it.
Unfortunately, novices have trouble reasoning about phenomena outside human perception.
Unfortunately, novices have trouble reasoning about phenomena outside human perception, at least in part, because they do not understand the relative magnitudes at these scales.
People might have trouble reasoning, finding words, remembering things, organizing priorities, recognizing faces, understanding what's said to them, or doing multiple things at once.
"The Japanese, Americans, Germans and others will deduce what we have all known for a while: that uncertainty, dissatisfaction, short-sighted reasoning and other troubles are now the common denominator not only of the capital's opera but of Italian life," wrote journalist Armando Torno.
They have trouble concentrating, reasoning and doing simple math problems.
A recent sample of Ms. Rubin's moral reasoning: Bush had no trouble deciding that waterboarding in limited circumstances to extract actionable information was preferable to letting Americans die.
Palmer and U.S.C. understand the reasoning, because Palmer got in trouble last fall by running with the ball.
In "Prospero's Books," Peter Greenaway's riveting 1991 film version of the play, the dancer and choreographer Michael Clark played Caliban, and he did it without speaking, miming his disgust with the rational mind: it's Prospero's two-faced reasoning that got him in trouble in the first place.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, the largest nongovernmental regulator for securities firms doing business in the United States, recently met with individual financial services companies and the Alzheimer's Association to formulate guidelines on how to deal with clients who have trouble remembering and reasoning, a problem that is not new but is increasing as the population ages.
