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pure reason
noun
- reason based on a priori principles and providing a unifying ground for the perception of the phenomenal world.
Example Sentences
And that is the pure reason I am here, because I need to say who I am.
Anti-humanist emissaries like Musk and Thiel or May and Knight might preach from the pulpit of pure reason, but their worldviews are suffused with religious zeal, with the promise of enchantment.
He pored over the pages, as if he were a philosophy student attempting to understand Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.
“Critique of Pure Reason,” 1781 edition, Pages 341 to 405 of the German text, especially 384, discusses at great length the state of the soul in the life of a human being, the soul in and before the birth of that being, and the soul in and after that being’s death.
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.
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