pure reason

American  

noun

Kantianism.

1. reason based on a priori principles and providing a unifying ground for the perception of the phenomenal world.

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Example Sentences

And that is the pure reason I am here, because I need to say who I am.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 14, 2023

A piece of code functions as an object of pure reason, devoid of emotion and all the messiness that entails.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2020

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

So he was left to follow in the mental footsteps of the Ancients, using pure reason and imagination to try to come up with an explanation for the nature of the cosmos.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin