Meta-Reason

The application of reasoning to evaluate and improve our reasoning processes themselves. It's about identifying cognitive biases (like confirmation bias), understanding the limits of heuristics, and choosing the right reasoning tool for the problem. It's what you use when you realize your own argument is getting emotional, so you deliberately step back to assess the evidence more coldly. It's rationality's quality control department.

Example: "He was losing the debate, so he engaged meta-reason: 'Hold on, I'm getting defensive because my identity is tied to this view. Let me steel-man my opponent's argument instead.' He still lost, but he lost with intellectual integrity, which is its own weird nerd victory."

by Abzugal January 30, 2026

Field Reason

The specific mode of calculated, instrumental thinking demanded by and rewarded within a controlled field. It is reason stripped of ethical, historical, or social context, focused solely on optimizing for the field's designated goals (e.g., efficiency, engagement, profit). To use Field Reason is to accept the field's premises and play by its rules.

Field Reason Example: A social media manager using field reason decides to post inflammatory content because the platform's algorithm rewards outrage with visibility. They are reasoning perfectly within the field's logic (maximize engagement metrics), while deliberately ignoring the broader social harm (polarization, spread of hate) their actions cause.

by Dumuabzu February 8, 2026

Rhyme & reason

Using the ations to create perfect rhyme and reason is acceptable

In this situation there's no negotiation or deliberation with the formulation using articulation to make a rhyme & reason creation.

by Ryandennisgeorge March 12, 2025

Latent Reasoning

"The model reasons in its internal, abstract representation of the problem..." Says the article.

Hym "The new model in Singapore uses 'Latent Reasoning.' Which is the idea that WE DO NOT THINK IN WORDS BUT RATHER AMORPHOUS ABSTRACTIONS! Which is ALSO MY IDEA!!! It uses 2 asymmetrical cycles of computation (Slow deliberate planning and fast intuitive computation) and they call it the hierarchical model but ALSO MY IDEA! What do you think is at the top of that hierarchy class? That's right! IT MUST necessarily be A LOCALIZED SELF! AND-"

by Hym Iam July 26, 2025

Adding reason to the rhyme

When context is missing so you make up something for it to make more sense.

Eleven doesn't have cancer? She was bald I'm just adding reason to the rhyme, I never watched stranger Things.

by LOve4foxes January 1, 2026

Final Rise To Reason

A Punk Rock band from South Africa. Formed in 2012 by 2 high school friends and later they added an extra member to the group. They sing against topics such as racism, sexism, animal abuse, politics and also wants to encourage people to be different than the mainstream society. People who listens to music and have the same ideas as the norm (labeled by FRTR as slaves of society) are encouraged by the band to stop that mindless habit and be truly unique. FRTR wants to let their voices be heard and strives to make this world a better place to live in.

Slave of society:"I'm gonna listen to that new band Final Rise To Reason, 'cause I wanna fit in like everyone else."
True FRTR fan:"They hate people like you."
Slave of society:"Asshole, why do you say that?"
True FRTR fan:"'Cause you listen to them to be cool!! The band hates fans like you!!!"

by school punk kid March 12, 2014

Love Deactivates Reason

The axiom which states that though need and usually a set of reasons activate and fuel love, to satisfy one or both lover's needs, love, that still unexplained phenomenon which makes the world go round, quickly deactivates reason.

The social scientist realized that love deactivates reason and submitted that new term to help everyone comprehend and track the seemingly mysterious but in reality, quasi-predictable steps love tends to take.

by but for October 25, 2017