Remit? There are truths that fall outside the remit of reason or science.?

What does the word "remit" mean in the above sentence?|||It is being used as a synonym for the word "scope".





If you read it as; "There are truths that fall outside the scope of reason or science."





Then you may find that the meaning is not so obscure. The author might for example have been referencing love or joy or beauty as examples of "truth" or true experiences that have no need of reason or science to understand them.|||Remit has several definitions. My Merriam-Webster shows 5 definitions of which #1 is "Forgive or pardon" and #3 is "to return for report." The others have to do with paying bills with money.





I would say that the use of remit in that sentence is an obscure usage and therefore effectively meaningless. It is a word being used in a non-standard context.





Were I to grade the paper in which that sentence appears, I would take points off for unclear or obscured usage.|||It is not the commonly-used definition.





Remit means to give or transfer money (i.e., pay).





The way you are using it is a chiefly British definition that has to do with a working group (i.e., usually referring to a scientific body of experts that have a specific purpose in mind, but also the parameters of responsibilities for the group).





1. (chiefly British) terms of reference; set of responsibilities.


* 2000: Scientific Working Group on Good Laboratory Practice issues, Handbook: Good Laboratory Practice read on World Health Organisation website at http://www.who.int/tdr/publications/publ鈥?/a> on 14 May 2006 - WHO/TDR should prepare a volume containing ... important issues in the performance of studies that fall outside of the GLP remit.


* 2001: H. Meinardi et al, ILAE Commission, The treatment gap in epilepsy: the current situation and ways forward read at http://www.ilae-epilepsy.org/pubs/JAN200鈥?/a> on 14 May 2006 - However, this is beyond the remit of this particular article.


* 2003: Andy Macleod, Cisco Systems, Pulling it all together - the 21st Century Campus read at http://www.ciscoeventreg.net/go/presenta鈥?/a> on 14 May 2006 - Next steps ... Create one IS organisation and extend remit to all HE activities.|||'remit' when used as a noun means "terms of reference" or "set of responsibilities" or perhaps "jurisdiction." It is pronounced on the first syllable, as RI-mit. It's not used in American English but I think it's fairly common in the UK. In the U.S. we might use "outside the purview of...." or "outside the bailiwick of...." or "outside the sphere of...."|||very ambiguous either the withheld accusation of reason or science or the the payment do . what was the context?|||If a truth can't be demonstrated, by what rationale can you call it truth?|||In the sentence you posted, it means "law."