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The Principle of reason (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the modern techno-scientific principle, simply, that for everything some reason or ground can or must be rendered.

The Principle of reason (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a call to explain effects through causes, to ground, to justify, to account for something not on its own basis, but on the basis of external principles or laws.

The Principle of reason (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠problematic in that with the so-called ‘principle of reason’ come certain models of what it is to ‘explain’ something (i.e. by reference to some field of knowledge).

The Principle of reason (n.) directs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠our epoch of techno-science.

The Principle of reason (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the requirement not only that the things that encounter us that they yield up their grounds, but it is also, of course, to posit human thinking as that to which things must be brought to give reason.