Sentence examples for used reason from inspiring English sources

Nagarjuna used reason to condemn reason.

If you really press them, just ask them, aren't you glad that the people who built the aeroplane you fly in used reason?

While Enlightenment thinkers sought to advance the public good — producing documents like The Bill of Rights — they also used reason to justify colonialism and slavery).

Its members argued that since Muḥammad himself had not used reason in this respect, it is an innovation (bidʿah) to do so, and every innovation is a heresy according to a well-known prophetic saying.

The mutakallimūm, theologians who used reason and argumentation to support their revealed Islamic beliefs, developed the temporal version of the argument from the impossibility of an infinite regress, known as the kalām argument.

The idea of a bird or any other animal manufacturing dietary supplements or isolating a particular nutrient is surely absurd: Human beings have used reason and technology to attain the truth in this matter, which is transmitted via communications networks of which we can be rightly proud.

Authentically Islamic traditions and much of the Quran commands us to use reason.

But clearly the eminently rational Obama is betting that if reasonable people use reason they can get somewhere.

If cultivating our garden stultifies our minds, if using reason prevents our seeing visions, if compassion enfeebles us – what then?

Heroes use reason to separate virtue from vice.

We consider humans unique for their ability to use reason.