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A cause:

That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.

A motive for an action or a determination.

An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.

(logic) A premise placed after its conclusion.

Rational thinking (or the capacity for it); the cognitive faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.

(obsolete) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.

(obsolete) Ratio; proportion.

To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational

To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.

(obsolete) To converse; to compare opinions.

To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.

(rare) To support with reasons, as a request.

To persuade by reasoning or argument.

(with ''down'') To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.

(usually with ''out'') To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

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