Reasonability

Quick meaning: Reasonability is a noun meaning The state or quality of being reasonable.

Meaning

The state or quality of being reasonable.

Example Sentences

Epistemic reasonability could be understood in terms of the general requirement to try to have the largest possible set of logically independent beliefs that is such that the true beliefs outnumber the false beliefs.

1897, Judson Harmon, "Brief for the United States in the Case of the United States of America v. The Trans-Missouri Freight Association," The Yale Law Journal, vol. 6, no. 6, p. 323n., The very difficult inquiry as to the reasonability of such agreements was an inadequate protection.

2003, F. R. Anscombe, "Quiet Contributor: The Civic Career and Times of John W. Tukey," Statistical Science, vol. 18, no. 3, p. 302 (quoting National Academy of Sciences president Philip Handler), "The nation and the Academy can count themselves fortunate that your integrated intelligence, insight, sound judgment, good taste, and unflappable reasonability were all available."

Word Forms

• reasonabilities

Synonyms for reasonability

Depending on context, synonyms include reasonableness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include soundness, rationality, rationalisation, logical, likelihood, logic.

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