Reason vs Truth - 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:
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, 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.
The state or quality of being true to someone or something.
(label) Faithfulness, fidelity.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
(label) A pledge of loyalty or faith.
True facts, genuine depiction or statements of reality.
* (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) (1772-1834)
*{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Conformity to fact or reality; correctness, accuracy.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2012-01, author=Robert M. Pringle, volume=100, issue=1, page=31, magazine=(American Scientist), title=
, passage=As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.}}
Conformity to rule; exactness; close correspondence with an example, mood, model, etc.
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That which is real, in a deeper sense; spiritual or ‘genuine’ reality.
* 1820 , (John Keats), (Ode on a Grecian Urn)
(label) Something acknowledged to be true; a true statement or axiom.
* 1813 , (Jane Austen), (Pride and Prejudice)
Topness. (See also truth quark.)
(obsolete) To assert as true; to declare, to speak truthfully.
In obsolete terms the difference between reason and truth
is that reason is something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice while truth is a pledge of loyalty or faith.As nouns the difference between reason and truth
is that reason is a cause while truth is the state or quality of being true to someone or something.As verbs the difference between reason and truth
is that 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 while truth is to assert as true; to declare, to speak truthfully.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
*External links
* *truth
English
Alternative forms
* trewth (obsolete)Noun
(order of senses) (en-noun)- Alas! they had been friends in youth, / But whispering tongues can poison truth .
- The truth depends on, or is only arrived at by, a legitimate deduction from all the facts which are truly material.
Magician’s brain, passage=The truth is that [Isaac] Newton was very much a product of his time. The colossus of science was not the first king of reason, Keynes wrote after reading Newton’s unpublished manuscripts. Instead “he was the last of the magicians”.}}
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John Mortimer(1656?-1736)
- Ploughs, to go true, depend much on the truth of the ironwork.
- Beauty is truth', ' truth beauty, - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
Synonyms
* SeeAntonyms
* falsehood, falsity, lie, nonsense, untruth, half-truthDerived terms
* half-truth * if truth be told * tell the truth * truthful * truthiness * truthless * truth or dare * truth serum * truthyVerb
(en verb)- Had they [the ancients] dreamt this, they would have truthed it heaven. — Ford.
- 1966', ''You keep lying, when you oughta be '''truthin
' — Nancy Sinatra, "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'"