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practical reason

noun

  1. (in Kantian ethics) reason applied to the problem of action and choice, especially in ethical matters.


practical reason

noun

  1. the faculty by which human beings determine how to act
  2. reasoning concerning the relative merits of actions
  3. the principles governing arguments which issue in actions or intentions to act


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Word History and Origins

Origin of practical reason1

First recorded in 1895–1900

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Example Sentences

There are moral, humanitarian and practical reasons for focusing on health care workers.

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In short, Israel doesn’t have any practical reasons to make a deal with the Palestinians.

Thousands are journeying to the border, motivated by complicated personal and practical reasons.

There are so many practical reasons to have plastic cups in your life.

The proposed act was constitutionally problematic, but it was also unwise for more practical reasons.

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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.

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