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Lazy reason (n.) or ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠ignava ratio appeals to a divine author to explain nature's order, skipping every cause one could still learn about in order to rest in a comforting idea.

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Lazy reason (n.) or ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠ignava ratio is any principle that lets you regard your investigation of nature as absolutely complete so that reason can rest — like the sophism that if it is your fate to recover, you will recover whether you call a physician or not.