Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
A premise placed after its conclusion.
A motive for an action or a determination.
To support with reasons, as a request.
To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
To persuade by reasoning or argument.
To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational
To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.
Perception through the intellect; apprehension; awareness.
One of two opposite directions in which a vector (especially of motion) may point. See also polarity.
A natural appreciation or ability.
The way that a referent is presented.
The meaning, reason, or value of something.
A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary.
Sound practical or moral judgment.
Any of the manners by which living beings perceive the physical world: for humans sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste.
referring to the strand of a nucleic acid that directly specifies the product.
One of two opposite directions of rotation, clockwise versus anti-clockwise.
Any particular meaning of a word, among its various meanings.
To instinctively be aware.
To comprehend.
To use biological senses: to either see, hear, smell, taste, or feel.