pure reason

noun

, Kantianism.

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

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Feelings are connected both with our sensuous nature, our imagination, and the pure reason.

Be pleased, then, to remember (First): That the actions of human beings are not invariably governed by the laws of pure reason.

This thing of returning to Antrim had been a matter of pure reason, and then suddenly his heart had spread forgotten wings.

The belief in supernatural miracles is in contradiction to pure reason, which lays the foundations of all science.

Kant, who won so great a vogue for the term "pure reason," understood by this originally "reason as independent of experience."

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