A surname.

A surname.

plural of Reasoner

Caused by; resulting from; because of.

Having a justifiable or legitimate cause.

Synonym of within reason

(US, idiomatic) For reasons unknown and not worth speculating on.

(Internet slang) Used to avoid specifying the reasons for something, perhaps because specifying them would be tangential to the point at hand, or perhaps the reasons are too many or too involved or too time consuming to specify, or perhaps because they are not sound or are not known to the speaker.

(law) A fictional person used as a comparative legal standard to represent an average member of society and how he or she would behave or think, especially in determining negligence; sometimes formulated as "a person of ordinary prudence exercising due care in like circumstances."

The process of making inferences based upon observed patterns, or simple repetition. Often used in reference to predictions about what will happen or does happen, based upon what has happened.