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Single Idea 13009
[filed under theme 2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 1. On Reason
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Full Idea
A reason is a known truth whose connection with some less well-known truth leads us to give our assent to the latter.
Gist of Idea
A reason is a known truth which leads to assent to some further truth
Source
Gottfried Leibniz (New Essays on Human Understanding [1704], 4.17)
Book Ref
Leibniz,Gottfried: 'New Essays on Human Understanding', ed/tr. Remnant/Bennett [CUP 1996], p.475
A Reaction
This is plainly false, because you can have a reason for believing something, but still not give your assent to it, presumably because of counter-reasons. And a false belief could also be a reason, even to believe a truth. Tut tut.
The
34 ideas
with the same theme
[general role of reason in mind and living]:
1502
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Parmenides was much more cautious about accepting ideas than his predecessors
[Simplicius on Parmenides]
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243
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It is foolish to quarrel with the mind's own reasoning processes
[Plato]
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224
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When questions are doubtful we should concentrate not on objects but on ideas of the intellect
[Plato]
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11283
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There is pure deductive reasoning, and explanatory demonstration reasoning
[Aristotle, by Politis]
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23250
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Desired responsible actions result either from rational or from irrational desire
[Aristotle]
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2676
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Didactic argument starts from the principles of the subject, not from the opinions of the learner
[Aristotle]
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1848
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We are coerced into assent to a truth by reason's violence
[Aquinas]
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22708
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Good reasons must give way to better
[Shakespeare]
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13009
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A reason is a known truth which leads to assent to some further truth
[Leibniz]
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16897
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Reason is the faculty for grasping apriori necessary truths
[Leibniz, by Burge]
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6253
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Reason is our power of finding out true propositions
[Hutcheson]
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5604
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In reason things can only begin if they are voluntary
[Kant]
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5622
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The boundaries of reason can only be determined a priori
[Kant]
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5623
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If I know the earth is a sphere, and I am on it, I can work out its area from a small part
[Kant]
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21416
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Philosophers should not offer multiple proofs - suggesting the weakness of each of them
[Kant]
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21974
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The world seems rational to those who look at it rationally
[Hegel]
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7083
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Highest reason is aesthetic, and truth and good are subordinate to beauty
[Hegel]
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17892
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For clear questions posed by reason, reason can also find clear answers
[Gödel]
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23945
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Reason is actually passions, guided by perspicacious reflection
[Solomon]
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3811
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Entailment and validity are relations, but inference is a human activity
[Searle]
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3822
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Theory involves accepting conclusions, and so is a special case of practical reason
[Searle]
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19304
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The rules of reasoning are not the rules of logic
[Harman]
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19306
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It is a principle of reasoning not to clutter your mind with trivialities
[Harman]
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19307
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If there is a great cost to avoiding inconsistency, we learn to reason our way around it
[Harman]
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19309
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Logic has little relevance to reasoning, except when logical conclusions are immediate
[Harman]
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6950
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You can be rational with undetected or minor inconsistencies
[Harman]
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3099
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Inference is never a conscious process
[Harman]
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23249
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The early philosophers thought that reason has its own needs and desires
[Frede,M]
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9429
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Many forms of reasoning, such as extrapolation and analogy, are useful but deductively invalid
[Mumford]
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4767
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Traditionally, rational beliefs are those which are justified by reasons
[Psillos]
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20955
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Art can make reason more all-inclusive, by articulating what seemed inexpressible
[Bowie]
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5750
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Consistency is modal, saying propositions are consistent if they could be true together
[Melia]
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6585
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Rationality is threatened by fear of inconsistency, illusions of absolutes or relativism, and doubt
[Fogelin]
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8952
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We reach 'reflective equilibrium' when intuitions and theory completely align
[Fisher]
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