In the English language and other modern European languages, "reason", and related words, represent words … See more

The proposal that reason gives humanity a special position in nature has been argued to be a defining characteristic of western philosophy and later western science, starting with classical Greece. Philosophy can be des… See more

The terms logic or logical are sometimes used as if they were identical with reason or rational, or sometimes logic is seen as the most pure or the defining form of reason: "Logic is about reasoning—about going from premi… See more

Philosophy is often characterized as a pursuit of rational understanding, entailing a more rigorous and dedicated application of human reasoning than commonly employed. Philosophers have long debated two fundam… See more

Scientific research into reasoning is carried out within the fields of psychology and cognitive science. Psychologists attempt to determine whether or not people are capable of rational thought in a number of different cir… See more

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• Argument – Attempt to persuade or to determine the truth of a conclusion
• Argumentation theory – Academic field of logic and rh… See more

• Reason at PhilPapers
• Beer, Francis A., "Words of Reason", Political Communication 11 (Summer, 1994): 185–201.
• Gilovich, Thomas (1991), How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Re… See more