in reason
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Their purveyors are interested in some other point and therefore have no interest in reason.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
“I believe in reason, in science,” he said.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 4, 2023
The faith in reason held by Mill and Kant was premised on the printing press; free speech should be re-examined in the context of the internet and social media.
From Salon • Jan. 18, 2021
It is rational, I believe, to take one’s own feelings seriously, and it’s important to ground one’s feelings in reason and in careful thought.
From Slate • Oct. 15, 2020
Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses, Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies, Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten, In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
From Bacon and Shakspere by Burr, William Henry
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