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Speculative reason

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In philosophy, Speculative reason, sometimes called theoretical reason or pure reason, is theoretical thought, as opposed to practical thought. The distinction between the two goes at least as far back as the ancient Greek philosophers, such as Plato and Aristotle, who distinguished between theory and practice , as well as techne.