その通りで versus (X)その道理で: Does the latter ever make sense?


Context: I don't exactly remember how, but when I traveled in Japan three
years ago, I somehow picked up this phrase: `その通りです`. I didn't speak Japanese
then and I really still can't now, but the word `通り` sounded just like `道理`.
Therefore, I had always thought that the phrase was `その道理です`. It stuck in my
head like that.

Now, where I'm from, people speak Mandarin Chinese (Taiwan), and in Chinese,
we have its *cognateー`道理 (dào-lǐ)` ーwhich is to me identical to its Japanese
equivalent. In Chinese, 道理 can mean "sense," "argument," "reason," etc. This
confuses me tremendously. Why aren't `通り` and `道理` interchangeable according
to some? For instance, the answer in this Japanese topic seems to state that
they're not the same: <https://oshiete.goo.ne.jp/qa/977067.html>

Nonetheless, I could've understood it wrongly. The Japanese answer is really
beyond my two-month beginner level.

I couldn't find anything in English that compares the two. Please help clarify
this issue. Thank you.

*Or is it a stem? I'm not familiar with linguistics.




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道理 and 通り mean different things. As the link in you question suggests, 道理
means that things are such and such because of _logical necessity_ or due to
_common sense_ - they are expected to be this way. 通り simply says that
something is _in accordance with_ something else. You can say
[予定]{よてい}[通]{どお}り, yet there's nothing logical nor common-sensical when things
go as planned, they could go otherwise. その[通]{とお}り is not a truth statement,
though it's often translated as "that's right" it actually means that _[this
is] in line with that_ ([言]{い}う[通]{とお}り - _as was said_ - no truth claimed).




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道理 and 通り mean different things. As the link in you question suggests, 道理
means that things are such and such because of _logical necessity_ or due to
_common sense_ - they are expected to be this way. 通り simply says that
something is _in accordance with_ something else. You can say
[予定]{よてい}[通]{どお}り, yet there's nothing logical nor common-sensical when things
go as planned, they could go otherwise. その[通]{とお}り is not a truth statement,
though it's often translated as "that's right" it actually means that _[this
is] in line with that_ ([言]{い}う[通]{とお}り - _as was said_ - no truth claimed).

