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  • What's the exact opposite of reason?
  • thebrowndog
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    If reason is your ability to make decisions based on logic/facts, with the absence of emotion, then the opposite of “listen to reason” might be “listen to you heart”. You might not want something so fluffy puffy bunny on your top tube, so maybe “listen to your gut” if you want to channel your inner Chuck Norris.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Surely the opposite of reason is unreason? Not a word form I’ve ever come across, but you have reasonable and unreasonable.

    Tom_W1987
    Free Member

    Hora.

    deadlydarcy
    Free Member

    I think the struggle here is because the reason referred to in the OP is a noun, and opposites of nouns are a bit iffy. Sticking “un” in front of a word does not always the opposite make. One would imagine “unreason” is a word (haven’t looked it up tbh)* but if someone said it, I’m not sure I’d recognise it as a proper antonym for reason.

    *just looked up reason (as a noun) on dictionary.com and it doesn’t list any antonyms for it.

    GrahamS
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    One would imagine “unreason” is a word (haven’t looked it up tbh)* but if someone said it, I’m not sure I’d recognise it as a proper antonym for reason.

    You’re just being unreasonable 😉

    (As you say it doesn’t work on a noun. You can be unreasonable but you can’t have unreason)

    deadlydarcy
    Free Member

    You’re just being unreasonable

    Strange for me, but yes. 😛

    Northwind
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    It’s alright, I’m naming my bike, I’m not starting a bike company, I think I will not get sued (I was dead pleased when I came up with “chromag” for my very old steel frame, got as far as making logo templates for it before I discovered it’s a real brand)

    Right so what this is… I own a very modified motorbike, which at one point had the most absurdly loud exhaust on it. So a mate named it Reason, because if you were within about 10 miles of knockhill that day, you had to listen to Reason.

    So now I’m making a pushbike that makes no sense, except that I have all the bits. So it’s a carrera XC hardtail with coil lyriks, mostly saint drivetrain, and about £750 worth of wheels and brakes. And ice spikers obviously. And when I leaned it against hte motorbike I just thought, “Unreason”

    I’m so cool

    BoardinBob
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    TandemJeremy

    finephilly
    Free Member

    You could try contradiction?

    deadlydarcy
    Free Member

    /reason

    dannyh
    Free Member

    Reason as motive or reason as process?

    deadlydarcy
    Free Member

    Raison Pas

    (Said with a shrug.)

    boxelder
    Full Member

    nosayer

    Reverse of reason (with added why)

    hora
    Free Member

    To answer the OP – a single STWer. They start to have a skewered view on life manifested on forum posts.

    chewkw
    Free Member

    What’s the exact opposite of reason?

    Illogical or irrational.

    Everyone has a way of reasoning except no logical sense.

    I win. 😀

    For example, you lot should kiss my feet because my way or reasoning is that I step on you. The reasoning is good because you are perceived as way below the power of Dear Leader. But to you this does not make logical sense because I wear Clarks shoes so cannot kiss my feet. Hence, it is illogical but if I am bare footed then you will be able to kiss my feet. Logical? hhhhmmm … from now on I shall be bare footed so you can kiss my feet wholeheartedly. 😆

    mattbee
    Full Member

    Renton.

    Northwind
    Full Member

    That’s it decided, I’m calling it chewkw

    Cougar
    Full Member

    when I leaned it against hte motorbike I just thought, “Unreason”

    Then you have your answer, surely?

    chewkw
    Free Member

    Northwind – Member

    That’s it decided, I’m calling it chewkw

    You mean it’s so illogical it’s logical? Yes? 😆

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