practical reason

In addition to his temperamental aversion to populism, Roosevelt also had a practical reason to be cautious.

Want an extremely easy, practical reason to get interested in the quantified self movement?

He is clutching more out of habit than for any practical reason his black briefcase.

So that, from the Romney view of things, is the practical reason to stonewall.

But that argument must take place with a steady view of hard realities, tempered by the discipline of practical reason.

I speak of that as a practical reason why we should, before we leap, look to see what the actual conditions are.

Or it may direct its attention downwards and judge the other corporeal powers (practical reason).

Practical reason is forced into the same categories as theoretical.

The existence of the latter is known to us only by the emotions or by practical reason; but we can have no idea of its nature.

Kant especially lent support to it in recent years with his Critique of Practical Reason, and his three central dogmas.