Sentences with 'reasoned'
Example sentences and phrases with the word reasoned and other words derived from it.
• « Peter Abelard focused on the use and application of reason to faith - he believed that ultimate truth could and should sustain a reasoned investigation of its precepts, a stance that got him into considerable trouble with some Church leaders. »
• « If God was all-powerful and all-knowing, and chose to extend his grace to some people but not to others, Calvin reasoned, it was folly to imagine that humans could somehow influence him. Not only was the Catholic insistence on good works wrong, but the very idea of free will in the face of divine intelligence could not be right. »
• « Franklin observed that lightning tended to strike metallic objects and reasoned that he could therefore direct lightning through the placement of metallic objects during a thunderstorm. »