Contextualizebeta

reasonability

noun

Etymology

From reason(able) + -ability. Compare Middle English unresonabiltee, unresonabylite, whence unreasonability. Piecewise doublet of rationability.

  1. derived from ratiōnābilis
  2. derived from resnable
  3. inherited from resonable
  4. suffixed as reasonability — “reasonable + ability”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being reasonable.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for reasonability. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA