Definitions
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- n. The state or quality of being reasonable; reasonableness.
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Examples
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It won’t work for lots of reasons but also because it violates what I call the reasonability fallacy.
Firedoglake » The Miller’s Tale (And Other Legal Wranglings), Part III
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But a more subtle variety - all the more pernicious for their guise of 'reasonability' -- have taken over media that thinking people used to rely on for information, like National Public Radio and the
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It's not perfect, but it passes the "reasonability" test.
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Using the most pampered, coddled and attended individual in the world as a model for "reasonability" when it comes to compensation is beyond daft.
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“Yes, but be careful, child, for the headless warrior is neither good nor evil, but acts to the users will, I have not shown you these items before because of their power but I will not be around forever and you are old enough to understand the reasonability of keeping these safe and using them wisely.”
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » David’s Second Review Forum
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But a more subtle variety – all the more pernicious for their guise of ‘reasonability’ -- have taken over media that thinking people used to rely on for information, like National Public Radio and the New York Times Magazine.
Lynn Parramore: Mr. Davidson's Planet: NPR/NYT Guru Adam Davidson's Discredited Economic Principles
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An online reasonability model could be found, taking into account things like the way that anonymity encourages defamation.
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If you bother dipping more than a toe into the turbulent waters of the human mind, you might be forced to explore the notion that conventional reality itself transcends the bounds of merely scientific thinking while still lending itself to reasonability.
A New Hope for Interstellar Travel? « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website
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That's not reasonability, just shear stubborness, and he's supposed to use the first and not the second while making his decisions.
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Beating a dead horse in argument is frowned upon, but sometimes it takes a good thrashing to reveal the absurdity beneath the surface reasonability.
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