pure reason
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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And that is the pure reason I am here, because I need to say who I am.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023
The light of pure reason, Joseph Conrad liked to say, resembles electricity in being cold.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 1, 2019
Mostly, though, Shapiro disapproves of anyone — existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, socialist novelist Sinclair Lewis, feminist journalist and activist Gloria Steinem — who has challenged the dual supremacy of religious morality and pure reason.
From Washington Post • Apr. 26, 2019
The Newton that emerges from the manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason.
From Economist • Jun. 19, 2014
During that long summer I’d been over and over the various arguments, all the pros and cons, and it was no longer a question that could be decided by an act of pure reason.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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