A reason or logical argument offered in opposition or contradiction to another reason.
From counter- + reason, from Old French raison, from Latin ratio (reckoning). Used in logic and debate contexts.
Philosophers love counterreasons because they force you to strengthen your argument—if someone has a good counterreason for your position, you have to either refute it or acknowledge your logic might be incomplete.
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