QUESTIONS.
1. What is it to reason about a matter? 2. From what is argue derived, and what does it mean? 3. What is it to demonstrate? to prove? How do these two words agree and differ?
EXAMPLES.
There are two ways of reaching truth: by ——ing it out and by feeling it out.
In ——ing, too, the person owned his skill,
For e'en tho vanquished, he could —— still.
A matter of fact may be ——ed by adequate evidence; only a mathematical proposition can be ——ed.
REASON, n. ([page 302]).
QUESTIONS.
1. How does cause differ from reason in the strict sense of each of the two words? 2. How is reason often used so as to be a partial equivalent of cause?