Reason vs Text - What's the difference?
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A cause:
# That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
#* 1996 , (w), : Evolution and the Meanings of Life , page 198:
# A motive for an action or a determination.
#* 1806 , Anonymous, Select Notes to Book XXI, in, (Alexander Pope), translator, The (Odyssey) of (Homer) , volume 6 (London, F.J. du Roveray), page 37:
#* 1881 , (Henry James), (The Portrait of a Lady) , chapter 10:
# An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
#* 1966 , (Graham Greene), ((Penguin Classics) edition, ISBN 0140184945), page 14:
(label) Rational]] thinking (or the capacity for it; the cognitive [[faculty, faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
* 1970 , (Hannah Arendt), On Violence (ISBN 0156695006), page 62:
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, title= (label) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
* (rfdate) (Edmund Spenser):
Ratio; proportion.
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.
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.
To converse; to compare opinions.
To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
(rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
To persuade by reasoning or argument.
To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
A consisting of multiple glyphs, characters, symbols or sentences.
A book, tome or other set of writings.
(colloquial) A brief written message transmitted between mobile phones; an SMS text message.
(computing) Data which can be interpreted as human-readable text (often contrasted with binary data ).
A verse or passage of Scripture, especially one chosen as the subject of a sermon, or in proof of a doctrine.
Hence, anything chosen as the subject of an argument, literary composition, etc.; topic; theme.
A style of writing in large characters; text-hand; also, a kind of type used in printing.
To send a text message to; to transmit text using the Short Message Service (SMS), or a similar service, between communications devices, particularly mobile phones.
To send (a message) to someone by SMS.
To send and receive text messages.
To write in large characters, as in text hand.
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As nouns the difference between reason and text
is that reason is a cause: while text is .As a verb reason
is 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.reason
English
(wikipedia reason)Noun
(en noun)- There is a reason why so many should be symmetrical: The selective advantage in a symmetrical complex is enjoyed by all the subunits
- This is the reason why he proposes to offer a libation, to atone for the abuse of the day by their diversions.
- Ralph Touchett, for reasons best known to himself, had seen fit to say that Gilbert Osmond was not a good fellow
- I have forgotten the reason' he gave for not travelling by air. I felt sure that it was not the correct ' reason , and that he suffered from a heart trouble which he kept to himself.
- And the specific distinction between man and beast is now, strictly speaking, no longer reason (the lumen naturale of the human animal) but science
Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason . The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
- I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme.
- (Barrow)
Synonyms
* (that which causes) cause * (motive for an action) rationale, motive * (thought offered in support) excuseDerived terms
* age of reason * everything happens for a reason * for some reason * for no good reason * for XYZ reason * have reason * in reason * instrumental reason * reasonability * reasonable * reasonableness * reasonist * reasonless * rhyme or reason * stand to reason * unreason * with reason * within reasonVerb
(en verb)- I reasoned the matter with my friend.
- to reason''' one into a belief; to '''reason one out of his plan
- to reason down a passion
- to reason''' out the causes of the librations of the moon
Derived terms
* reasoner * reason outStatistics
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*Verb
- Just text me when you get here.
- I'll text the address to you as soon as I find it.
- Have you been texting all afternoon?
citation, genre=Music , publisher=Cambridge University Press , isbn=9780521746540 , page= p. 223 , passage=The basic plan is simple. For the first two phrases the texted' line is above the '''untexted'''; for the next two, bring us to the midpoint cadence, the '''texted''' line is for the most part lower; and the in the second half the ' texted material starts lower, moves into the upper position and finally occupies the bottom range again. }}