practical reason

collocation in English

meaningsofpracticalandreason

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practical
adjective
uk
/ˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/us
/ˈpræk.tɪ.kəl/
relating to experience, real situations, or actions rather than ideas ...
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reason
noun
uk
/ˈriː.zən/us
/ˈriː.zən/
the cause of an event or situation or something that provides an excuse ...
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(Definition ofpracticalandreasonfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpractical reason

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This complete transformation sets up a conflict inpracticalreason.
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It is the set of categorical principles ofpracticalreason.
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There was also apracticalreasonfor this choice.
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The first point of view, or the surface structure ofpracticalreason, is moral reasoning.
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Practicalreasoncertainly requires the comparison of options in terms of their absolute descriptions.
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This is production aspracticalreasonon the march, industry as embodied science.
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We know of nopracticalreasonwhy we should do so.
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We have both a conceptual and apracticalreasonfor using a truncated model.
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I chose drama groups for the purelypracticalreasonof voice recognition.
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More generally, the paper is offered as a contribution to debates about incomparability andpracticalreason.
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The law can effectively operate as part of the agent'spracticalreason.
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Thepracticalreasonis that we do not observe travel costs for non-collectors.
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The distinction between parity, thus defined, and incomparability matters forpracticalreason.
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In turn,practicalreasonwill limit this set to the set of possible scenarios and then deliberate among these.
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First, if the predictive criteria were known, many people might be able to usepracticalreasonto avoid preemption.
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I do assume, however, that coherence applied topracticalreasonwould call for a consistent application of reasons.
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Instead, they base their actions on a particular sort ofpracticalreasonsanctified by religious tradition (pp. 18, 30).
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On this account, then, the actual content of authentic prophetic vision more closely resembles the object ofpracticalreason.
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The justice-based account hence should recognize anotherpracticalreasonfor sometimes preferring continuity, that is, integrity.
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The abstraction from the norms ofpracticalreasonis useful in describing, understanding, explaining, and predicting human behavior.
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There is nopracticalreason.
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That is thepracticalreason.
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That is onepracticalreason.
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Thepracticalreasonis this.
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There is apracticalreason.
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