reason
n. காரணம், ஏது, வாதகாரணம், வாத ஆதாரம், நம்பிக்கை ஆதாரம், செயல்விளக்க ஆதாரம், செயல்விளக்க ஆதாரம், செயல் நோக்கம், செயல்நோக்க விளக்கம், நியாயம், உள்ளார்ந்த விளக்கம், முடிவுவிளக்கம, முகாந்தரம், செயற்காரணம், விளக்கக்கூற்று, விளக்க வாசகம், மெய்யறிவு, அறிவு கடந்த உணர்வு, அறிவுரு, கடவுள், அறிவாராய்ச்சித் திறம், பகுத்தறிவின் முடிவு, பகுத்தறிவின் முடிவு, பகுத்தறிவுக்கு ஒத்தநிலை, விவேகம், பகுத்தறிவு செயலாற்றும் நிலை., நேர்மை, ஒழுங்கு உய்த்துணர்வு, வாத நேர்மை, பொருத்தமுடிடைமை, முரணின்மை, யுக்தி, இயைபுணர்வு, நேர்நெறி, நல்வழி, நேரிய செயல் முறை, நீதி, நேரிய நடத்தை, நடைமுறை நலம், நடைமுறைக்கு உகந்த நலம், மாட்டொழுங்கு, மட்.டியல் நடை, இயல்பொழுங்கு, நல்லறிவு நிலை, நல்லுணர்வு நிலை, மயக்கமின்மை, (அள) நிமித்தம், முடிவு வலியுறுத்தும் ஆதாரம், (வினை)வாதிடு, ஆஜ்ய்ச்சி செய், சீர்தூக்கிப் பார், காரணகாரிய முறையில் விளக்கு, காரணகாரியத் தொடர்பாக ஆராய்ச்சிசெய், அளவை நுல் முறைப்படி செய்திகளை அடுக்கிக்காட்டு, பகுத்தறிவைப் பயன்படுத்து, பகுத்தறிவுக்கு ஒத்ததாகக் காட்டு, யுக்திபூர்வமாகத் தருவி, காரணகாரிய முறையில் ஆஜ்ய், பரிசீலனை செய், ஆய்ந்து முடிவு செய், ஆராய்ச்சியால் முடிவுக்கு வா, உய்த்தறிவால் உணர், யூகிடி, விவாதி, தர்க்கமிடு, வாதமுறையிற் பேசு, வாதமுறையணயாகக் கூறு, காரணகாரியமாக விளக்கு, வாதிட்டு முடிவுசெய், வாதிட்டுப் பார், வாதத்துக்காகப் பேசிப்பார், வாதிட்டு இணக்குவிக்க முஸ்ல், வாதத்தால் இணக்குவி, எண்ணிப்பார், வாதத்துக்காகக் கதில் ஆய்ந்து பார்.
Synonyms
#noun ground, account, cause, explanation, motive, proof, apology,understanding, reasoning, rationality, right, propriety, justice,order, object, sake, purpose #verb debate, discuss, argue, infer, deduce, conclude, [see argue]
Antonyms
#noun pretext, pretence, misinterpretation, falsification,misconception, disproof, unreasonableness, absurdity, fallacy,irrationality, wrong, unreason, impropriety, unfairness, folly,aimlessness, unaccountableness #verb
Rea"son, n. Etym: [OE. resoun, F. raison, fr. L. ratio (akin to Goth. rapj number, account, garapjan to count, G. rede speech, reden to speak), fr. reri, ratus, to reckon, believe, think. Cf. Arraign, Rate, Ratio, Ration.] 1. A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument. I'll give him reasons for it. Shak. The reason of the motion of the balance in a wheel watch is by the motion of the next wheel. Sir M. Hale. This reason did the ancient fathers render, why the church was called "catholic." Bp. Pearson. Virtue and vice are not arbitrary things; but there is a natural and eternal reason for that goodness and virtue, and against vice and wickedness. Tillotson. 2. The faculty of capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals; the higher as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties, sense, imagination, and memory, and in contrast to the feelings and desires. Reason comprises conception, judgment, reasoning, and the intuitional faculty. Specifically, it is the intuitional faculty, or the faculty of first truths, as distinguished from the understanding, which is called the discursive or ratiocinative faculty. We have no other faculties of perceiving or knowing anything divine or human, but by our five senses and our reason. P. Browne. In common and popular discourse, reason denotes that power by which we distinguish truth from falsehood, and right from wrong, and by which we are enabled to combine means for the attainment of particular ends. Stewart. Reason is used sometimes to express the whole of those powers which elevate man above the brutes, and constitute his rational nature, more especially, perhaps, his intellectual powers; sometimes to express the power of deduction or argumentation. Stewart. By the pure reason I mean the power by which we become possessed of principles. Coleridge. The sense perceives; the understanding, in its own peculiar operation, conceives; the reason, or rationalized understanding, comprehends. Coleridge. 3. Due exercise of the reasoning faculty; accordance with, or that which is accordant with and ratified by, the mind rightly exercised; right intellectual judgment; clear and fair deductions from true principles; that which is dictated or supported by the common sense of mankind; right conduct; right; propriety; justice. I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme. Spenser. But law in a free nation hath been ever public reason; the enacted reason of a parliament, which he denying to enact, denies to govern us by that which ought to be our law; interposing his own private reason, which to us is no law. Milton. The most probable way of bringing France to reason would be by the making an attempt on the Spanish West Indies. Addison. 4. (Math.) Defn: Ratio; proportion. [Obs.] Barrow. By reason of, by means of; on account of; because of. "Spain is thin sown of people, partly by reason of the sterility of the soil." Bacon. In reason, In all reason, in justice; with rational ground; in a right view. When anything is proved by as good arguments as a thing of that kind is capable of, we ought not, in reason, to doubt of its existence. Tillotson. -- It is reason, it is reasonable; it is right. [Obs.] Yet it were great reason, that those that have children should have greatest care of future times. Bacon. Syn. -- Motive; argument; ground; consideration; principle; sake; account; object; purpose; design. See Motive, Sense. Rea"son, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Reasoned; p. pr. & vb. n. Reasoning.] Etym: [Cf. F. raisonner. See Reason, n.] 1. To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts. 2. Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth propositions and the inferences from them; to argue. Stand still, that I may reason with you, before the Lord, of all the righteous acts of the Lord. 1 Sam. xii. 7. 3. To converse; to compare opinions. Shak. Rea"son, v. t. 1. To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss; as, I reasoned the matter with my friend. When they are clearly discovered, well digested, and well reasoned in every part, there is beauty in such a theory. T. Burnet. 2. To support with reasons, as a request. [R.] Shak. 3. To persuade by reasoning or argument; as, to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan. Men that will not be reasoned into their senses. L'Estrange. 4. To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons; -- with down; as, to reason down a passion. 5. To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument; -- usually with out; as, to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon.