Reason Double Standards

The practice of applying different standards of reason to different people or positions—treating one's own reasoning as reasonable while dismissing comparable reasoning from others as unreasonable. Reason Double Standards are the everyday currency of argument, the unspoken assumption that "my reasons are reasons; yours are rationalizations." They make genuine dialogue impossible because they ensure that one side is always already reasonable and the other always already wrong.

Example: "His reasons were careful analysis; her reasons were just rationalizations. Reason Double Standards in action: same thing, different labels, depending on who was doing the reasoning. The double standard was invisible to him, which is how it worked."

by Dumu The Void March 10, 2026

Reason Power

The overarching capacity to shape outcomes through the deployment of reason, argument, and discourse. It's the power of the better argument, the compelling logic, the undeniable evidence—but crucially, it only works in contexts where reason is actually valued. Reason power is what the lone dissenter hopes to wield in a tyrannical meeting, what the scientist uses against the politician, what the philosopher dreams of bringing to the public square. It's fragile, easily overwhelmed by other forms of power, but when it works, it's the only power that can genuinely change minds.

Example: "They had all the money and all the votes, but in the end, reason power won—her argument was just too clear and too true to ignore."

by Dumu The Void March 11, 2026

Reason Hegemony

The dominance of a particular conception of "reason" itself—usually the Enlightenment ideal of dispassionate, analytic, individual cognition—over all other modes of thought and understanding. Reason hegemony operates when this specific style of thinking is treated as the pinnacle of human cognition, and all other modes (emotional intelligence, embodied wisdom, relational knowing, intuitive insight) are relegated to lower status. It's the cultural assumption that the most "reasonable" person is the one who reasons like a Western philosopher, and that other ways of making sense of the world are merely primitive precursors to "real" thought.

Example: "The committee valued the candidate's cold analytic memoranda while dismissing the warm, contextually rich reports from field workers—a classic case of reason hegemony mistaking one cognitive style for intelligence itself."

by Dumu The Void March 12, 2026

Reasonable Crash Out

When you Crash Out (lose your shit) but the situation is so messed up you’re justified.

Person A: Did you hear Jessie punched Sam in the Jaw, shot her, and then stomped on her face?

Person B: Didn’t Sam suggest jessie make amends with her ex after he cheated on her with SAM??!

Person A: Yeah i think so.

Person B: Eh, reasonable crash out, i would’ve done the same.

by ThunderousKirin March 10, 2025

Reasonable Crash Out

When you Crash Out but the situation is so messed up you’re justified.

Person 1: Yo! I just saw our neighbor setting her husband’s car on fire!

Person 2: Wait didn’t he cheat on her with her best friend while she was pregnant?

Person 1: Yeah, I think so.

Person 2: Eh, reasonable crash out, I would’ve done the same.

by ThunderousKirin March 10, 2025

Reasonable Crashout

To add some context, a “Crashout” is used to describe what happens when someone gets so mad they lose their composure. In turn, a “Reasonable Crashout” is when someone loses their composure but for a justifiable reason. The term “Reasonable Crashout” works to further describe the situation as not all Crashouts are considered viable and normally but the perpetrator of the Crashout in a negative light,however, a “Reasonable Crashout” automatically shows that the people who aought to be blamed are the people who caused the person to Crashout and not the person Crashing out themselves.

NOTE: Reasonable Crashout is also sometimes called a Necessary Crashout

A. “ My neighbor beat up the local pool boy for sleeping with the his wife, so it was a Reasonable Crashout.”

B. “My teacher gave me an F- for putting my name in the wrong corner, time for my Reasonable/Necessary Crashout!”

by GoldenKirin March 24, 2025

Reasonably Accurate

Oh, shoot, totally. I am pretty reasonably accurate.

Hym "Reasonably Accurate. Brilliant. Handsome. The ultimate man. Better than everyone! Eeeeeveryone! But that's the difference between me and parents. They are the lowest common denominator. They are trying to hamstring ME so I have to be trapped here in their shit-life with them. And they can try to claim their lives are better than mine all they want but THEY ARE THE THING THAT IS ACTIVELY MAKING MY LIFE WORSE."

by Hym Iam June 11, 2025