Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The mental process of passing from the cognition of premises to the cognition of the conclusion; reasoning.
- noun A mental product and object consisting of premises and a conclusion drawn from them; inference; an argumentation.
- noun Synonyms Reasoning, etc. See
inference .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.
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- noun
Reasoning ,conscious deliberate inference ; the activity or process of reasoning. - noun
Thought or reasoning that isexact ,valid andrational . - noun A
proposition arrived at by such thought.
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- noun logical and methodical reasoning
- noun the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
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Examples
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Argumentative as the Buddhist suttas are, their aim is strictly practical, even when their language appears scholastic, and the burden of all their ratiocination is the same and very simple.
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There is a narrower sense, in which the name reasoning is confined to the form of inference which is termed ratiocination, and of which the syllogism is the general type.
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There is a narrower sense, in which the name reasoning is confined to the form of inference which is termed ratiocination, and of which the syllogism is the general type.
A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2)
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Up against a ticking clock, myriad plot twists and turns and a roster of red herring suspects, the hero eventually solves the mystery through logical deduction, a process known as ratiocination, not to mention a little luck.
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Up against a ticking clock, myriad plot twists and turns and a roster of red herring suspects, the hero eventually solves the mystery through logical deduction, a process known as ratiocination, not to mention a little luck.
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a soliddity of judgement in him, so infinite a fancy bounde in by a most logicall ratiocination, such a vast knowledge, that he was not ignorant in any thinge, yet such an excessive humillity as if he had knowne nothinge, that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a Colledge scituated in a purer ayre, so that his house was
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The squareness of it showed "ratiocination"; and the fulness under the eyes "language".
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And it is worth attention that when Clifford is aroused to sudden action by Judge Pyncheon's death, the coruscating play of his intellect is almost precisely that brilliant but defective kind of ratiocination which Poe so delights to display.
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Judge Pyncheon's death, the coruscating play of his intellect is almost precisely that brilliant but defective kind of ratiocination which Poe so delights to display.
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Employing Poe's methods of "ratiocination," Scooby and friends embark on a madcap chase through the spooky house!
plumpesdenken commented on the word ratiocination
What is un-Japanese about Wordsworth, however - and you only need to remember a poem like The Prelude or "Tintern Abbey" to realise it - is the nimbus of introspection and ratiocination which surrounds the physical details of the scene. Seamus Heaney in The Guardian.
November 25, 2007
yarb commented on the word ratiocination
There are numerous un-Japanese things about Wordsworth, I find.
November 26, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word ratiocination
"He took the Naval Chronicle, and after a little while he burst in upon Stephen's ratiocination with a fine exultant cry, 'By God, Stephen, she did it! Ajax came up with the Méduse off La Hogue and beat her into mummy in thirty-five minutes...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Surgeon's Mate, 361
February 9, 2008
yarb commented on the word ratiocination
"He spent ten years in Thibet organising the clarified butter industry on modern European lines, and was able to retire at thirty-six with a handsome fortune. The rest of his life he devoted to travel and ratiocination; here is the result."
- Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow
March 29, 2008
sionnach commented on the word ratiocination
What are the odds of a word having the exciting 'atio' sequence twice?
December 1, 2008
vanishedone commented on the word ratiocination
For any word under eight letters long, pretty slim.
December 1, 2008
mollusque commented on the word ratiocination
About 10,000 to one for words of eight letters of more.
December 1, 2008
pkipper commented on the word ratiocination
Here is an example of "ratiocination" as it might appear in cases of mental illness as explored in "Tender is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
"The faces of the patients wore the expression of one who had just signed profoundly, dismissing something insoluble--but their sighs only marked the beginning of another ceaseless round of RATIOCINATION, not in a line as with normal people but in the same circle. Round, round and round. Around forever."
March 27, 2009