Resolve vs Reason - What's the difference?
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To find a solution to (a problem).
To reduce to simple or intelligible notions; to make clear or certain; to unravel; to explain.
* Shakespeare
To solve again.
To make a firm decision to do something.
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To determine or decide in purpose; to make ready in mind; to fix; to settle.
To come to an agreement or make peace; patch up relationship, settle differences, bury the hatchet.
(transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To break down into constituent parts; to decompose; to disintegrate; to return to a simpler constitution or a primeval state.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
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, title= To cause to perceive or understand; to acquaint; to inform; to convince; to assure; to make certain.
* Alexander Pope
* Sir Walter Raleigh
* Milton
(music) To cause a chord to go from dissonance to consonance.
(computing) To find the IP address of a hostname, or the entity referred to by a symbol in source code; to look up.
(rare) To melt; to dissolve; to liquefy or soften (a solid).
(rare, intransitive, reflexive) To melt; to dissolve; to become liquid.
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(obsolete) To liquefy (a gas or vapour).
(medicine, dated) To disperse or scatter; to discuss, as an inflammation or a tumour.
(obsolete) To relax; to lay at ease.
Determination, will power.
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A cause:
# That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
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# 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.
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, title= (label) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
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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.
As verbs the difference between resolve and reason
is that resolve is (resolver) while 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.As a noun reason is
a cause:.resolve
English
Verb
(resolv)- to resolve a riddle
- Resolve my doubt.
- He was resolved by an unexpected event.
- O, that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew!
- Ye immortal souls, who once were men, / And now resolved to elements again.
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- Resolve me, Reason, which of these is worse, / Want with a full, or with an empty purse?
- In health, good air, pleasure, riches, I am resolved it can not be equalled by any region.
- We must be resolved how the law can be pure and perspicuous, and yet throw a polluted skirt over these Eleusinian mysteries.
- When the blood stagnates in any part, it first coagulates, then resolves , and turns alkaline.
- (Ben Jonson)
Derived terms
* resolvable * resolverReferences
*Noun
(en noun)- ''It took all my resolve to go through with it.
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Synonyms
* fortitude, inner strength, resoluteness, sticktoitiveness, tenacityreason
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
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- 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