reasonability
reasonability noun: the state or quality of being reasonable.
Noun
reasonability (usually uncountable, plural reasonabilities)
- The state or quality of being reasonable.
- The very difficult inquiry as to the reasonability of such agreements was an inadequate protection.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.
- 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.1982, Roderick Chisholm, The Foundations of Knowing, Univ. of Minnesota Press, page 7
- Synonyms:
- reasonableness
Synonyms of reasonability
Forms of reasonability
| plural | reasonabilities |
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Origin of reasonability
From reason(able) + -ability. Compare Middle English unresonabiltee, unresonabylite, whence unreasonability. Piecewise doublet of rationability.
Questions about reasonability
- What does reasonability mean?
- Reasonability means the state or quality of being reasonable.
- What part of speech is reasonability?
- Reasonability is a noun.
- What is the plural of reasonability?
- The plural of reasonability is reasonabilities.
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