half-reasoned

Updated: May 17, 2025

It is not only that this proceeding can never lay claim to the very rare merit of a true philosophical popularity, since there is no art in being intelligible if one renounces all thoroughness of insight; but also it produces a disgusting medley of compiled observations and half-reasoned principles.

Immanuel Kant - Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals