Because the building of ships was, to him, the application of rationality, of reason, thinking, and experimentation, this got him interested in the scientific revolution.

因为造船在他看来,是理性思想的应用,是推理,思考,实验的实际应用,这让他对科学革命有了兴趣

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

For reason, he writes in a famous passage, "for reason is nothing but reckoning, that is adding and subtracting the consequences of general names agreed upon."

对理性而言，他在一个著名的段落中写到，“推理就是一种计算，也就是将公认为标示或表明思想的,普通名词所构成的序列相加减“

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

John Locke accounted for the rise of private property from the state of nature by a chain of reasoning very similar to the one that Nozick and the libertarians use.

洛克从自然状态角度,解释了私有财产的兴起,他的推理思路,和诺齐克等自由主义者的思路相似。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

It might be improved by presenting other views better and more objectively, since Kagan always ended a particular line of reasoning by defeating the argument if he didn't agree with it.

讲课效果会提升如果更好的,并更客观的展示其他观点，因为卡刚通常通过击败一个论点,来结束特定的推理，如果他不同意它。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选