网页Meaning "sanity; degree of intelligence that distinguishes men from brutes" is recorded from late 13c. Sense of "grounds for action, motive, cause of an event" is from c.1300. Middle English sense of "meaning, signification" (early 14c.) is in the phrase rhyme or reason. Phrase it stands to reason is from 1630s.
网页2021年7月20日 · 多年研究reason和reasoning问题的斯蒂芬·图尔敏(Stephen Toulmin)2001年出版了一本书,从这本书的内容来看,它的书名Return to Reason(《回到理性》,其实更应该读作“Return to Reasonableness”(“回到讲理”)。