reason

the capacity of consciously making sense of things, applying logic, and adapting or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information
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reason

Summary

reason is a psychology concept[1]. reason draws 1,667 Wikipedia views per month (psychology_concept category, ranking #13 of 44).[2]

Key Facts

  • reason's instance of is recorded as psychology concept[3].
  • reason's instance of is recorded as philosophical concept[4].
  • reason is a type of cognitive process[5].
  • reason's Commons category is recorded as Reasoning[6].
  • reason is the opposite of absurdity[7].
  • reason's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Reasoning[8].
  • reason's described by source is recorded as Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language[9].
  • reason's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[10].
  • reason's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[11].
  • reason's described by source is recorded as The Nuttall Encyclopædia[12].
  • reason's described by source is recorded as Meyer’s Universum, Elfter Band[13].
  • reason's described by source is recorded as Meyer’s Universum, Vierzehnter Band[14].
  • reason's partially coincident with is recorded as reasoning[15].
  • reason's different from is recorded as Vernunft[16].
  • reason's different from is recorded as Reason[17].
  • reason's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[18].

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Definition and Type

Recorded instance of include psychology concept[3] and philosophical concept[4]. reason is a type of cognitive process[5]. reason is the opposite of absurdity[7].

Why It Matters

reason draws 1,667 Wikipedia views per month (psychology_concept category, ranking #13 of 44).[2] reason has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] reason is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 12d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of
    Different from Vernunft, Reason
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) 3491079
    Aliases
    + 8 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|8 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 4490, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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