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The mind's loudest lawyer, hired after the heart already made the decision.
means The capacity to think, draw conclusions, and justify beliefs or actions logically — or the explanation given for something.
from From Latin 'ratio' (reckoning, calculation, account), which came from 'reri', to reckon or think. It traveled into Old French as 'reson' before settling into English. Its accounting roots still show: to give a reason is, quite literally, to render an account — and 'ratio,' 'rational,' and 'rate' are all part of the same calculating family.
- hired help
- Often builds the case for what emotion chose first
- age of reason
- An entire era named itself after this
- motivated cognition
- Studies show we reason toward conclusions we want
- divine grudge
- Romantics blamed it for draining the world's magic
- latin root
- From ratio, meaning calculation and accounting
for instance
age of reason — 18th century philosophical movement emphasizing rationality over tradition
the republic of reason — kant's essay defining reason as faculty of universal principles