reason.

In both these cases, the faculty which finds out the means, and rightly applies them, to discover certainty in the one, and probability in the other, is that which we call reason.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

In both these cases, the faculty which finds out the means, and rightly applies them, to discover certainty in the one, and probability in the other, is that which we call reason.

Warranted Christian Belief 1932- 2000

For now, let me just say that the dark ones would destroy all of Liedwahr, and kill all of its sorcerers, including you and me, in the name of what they call reason.

The Soprano Sorceress Modesitt, L. E. 1997

Evidently it is not only deeper but larger than the surface mind which we call reason.

The New Theology 1911

Here, indeed, is a short and easy way of getting rid of the whole subject, not by reason, but by a first principle which he calls reason.

Apologia pro Vita Sua John Henry Newman 1845

But when he reached the stable, and sat down to smoke, and saw the hour approaching, his instinct began to act automatically, and in sheer defiance of the thing he called his reason.

A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time Hall Caine 1892

The fact, he means, cannot be demonstrated according to his customary use of the word reason.

Pascal John Tulloch 1854

11 Symposium of Xenophon, V. 12 It is a superstition to suppose that a refined taste would necessarily find the actual and useful to be the perfect; to conceal structure is as legitimate as to emphasize it, and for the name reason.

The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory George Santayana 1907

And we do all this because our acts have a basis in reason.

The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

But that's only part of the puzzle -- on way too many critical issues the last 10 years, neither the press nor the public has reacted enough, particularly to ideas that are lacking in reason.

Will Bunch: Sanity, Iraq, and Jon Stewart's "View From Nowhere" Will Bunch 2010