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Practical reason - Definition and Overview

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In philosophy, practical reason is the application of reason to deciding what to do (reason involved in decision-making or action), as opposed to, for example, deciding whether Isaac Newton's physics is superior to the Continental vortex physics; that would be theoretical reason (sometimes called speculative reason).

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