Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Use of reason, especially to form conclusions, inferences, or judgments.
- noun Evidence or arguments used in thinking or argumentation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The use of the faculty of reason; discriminative thought or discussion in regard to a subject; rational consideration.
- noun A presentation of reasons or arguments; an argumentative statement or expression; a formal discussion.
- noun Discussion; conversation; discourse.
- noun Synonyms Reasoning, Argumentation. Reasoning is much broader than argumentation. The latter is confined to one side of the question, or, in another sense, supposes a proposition, supported by arguments on the affirmative side and attacked by arguments on the negative. Reasoning may be upon one side of a proposition, and is then the same as
argumentation ; but it may also be the method by which one reaches a belief, and thus a way of putting together the results of investigation: as, the reasoning in Euclid, or in Butler's Analogy; the reasoning by which a thief justifies himself in stealing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons.
- noun That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Action of the verb toreason . - noun The deduction of
inferences orinterpretations from premises;abstract thought ;ratiocination . - verb Present participle of
reason .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective endowed with the capacity to reason
- noun thinking that is coherent and logical
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Examples
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Attempt to destroy Reason by reasoning extravagant, 124; objection to _abstract reasoning_ because it asserts infinite divisibility of extension which is shocking to common sense,
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding David Hume 1743
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Sorry but your reasoning is the passe mentality that infects our city council.
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He tends to hide his actual rulings in his verbiage, and sometimes the reasoning is all disjointed.
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This reasoning is a confusion of the forces that enable successful adaptation with the presence of a gender identity disorder.
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So the reasoning is apparently this: We acted like Lazio's tax returns were a big deal in 2000 because it was in our self-interest to do so, and this year we'll act like our returns aren't a big deal because it's in our self interest to do so.
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So the reasoning is apparently this: We acted like Lazio's tax returns were a big deal in 2000 because it was in our self-interest to do so, and this year we'll act like our returns aren't a big deal because it's in our self interest to do so.
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To say that this reasoning is a stretch is an understatement.
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The theory of black-body radiation, where the reasoning is allied to that of the kinetic theory, gives again the same value (64 x 1022).
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Consequently, the effective weight z of the gram to which this reasoning is applied, is its actual weight reduced by this push.
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Definitions of this type are considered too narrow, both because they define logic in terms of art, not leaving room for its claim to be considered a science, and because, by the use of the term reasoning, they restrict the scope of logic to one class of mental processes.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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