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Part of Speech: noun
Results: 11
4.
To converse;
to compare opinions.
6.
The faculty or capacity of the human mind by which it is distinguished from the intelligence of the inferior animals;
the higher
as distinguished from the lower cognitive faculties,
sense,
imagination,
and memory,
and in contrast
to the feelings
and desires. Reason comprises conception,
judgment,
reasoning,
and the intuitional faculty. Specifically,
it is the intuitional faculty,
or the faculty of first truths,
as distinguished from the understanding,
which is called the discursive or ratiocinative faculty.
Part of Speech: verb transitive
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