"the reason one is doing something" is a noun-group that describes a noun.
"reasoning of the human mind as a process" is ALSO a noun-group that describes a noun. Functional-grammarly speaking, that is. ;-) Even so, even in a traditional grammatical sense, "reasoning" and "a reason" are both nouns. Julian On 09/12/2012, at 11:23 AM, David Barbour <dmbarb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Julian Leviston <jul...@leviston.net> wrote: > > "a" reason, not "reason". Note I didn't say "reasoning comes before > processing". I meant "a reason to do something" surely must come before and > inform "a process to do". As in... the point of doing what you're doing. > > Yes, I understood that. But it is not a significant difference whether you > use reason as a noun or verb. As a noun, reason is oft discovered in the > doing, or inspired in the exploration. > > -- > bringing s-words to a pen fight > _______________________________________________ > fonc mailing list > fonc@vpri.org > http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
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