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en-wikipedia-org-7475		Reason - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	12418	1232	61	Reason is the capacity of consciously making sense of things, applying logic, and adapting or justifying practices, institutions, and beliefs based on new or existing information.[1] It is closely associated with such characteristically human activities as philosophy, science, language, mathematics, and art, and is normally considered to be a distinguishing ability possessed by humans.[2] Reason is sometimes referred to as rationality.[3] The proposal that reason gives humanity a special position in nature has been argued to be a defining characteristic of western philosophy and later western modern science, starting with classical Greece. Reason is for Plotinus both the provider of form to material things, and the light which brings individuals souls back into line with their source.[16] Such neo-Platonist accounts of the rational part of the human soul were standard amongst medieval Islamic philosophers, and under this influence, mainly via Averroes, came to be debated seriously in Europe until well into the renaissance, and they remain important in Iranian philosophy.[15]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-7475.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-7475.txt