Ratiocination

Quick meaning: Ratiocination is a noun meaning Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.

Meaning

Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.

More Meanings

1. Thought or reasoning that is exact, valid and rational.
2. A proposition arrived at by such thought.

Example Sentences

It is hard to follow the kinks of woman suffrage ratiocination.

He'd run in Debt by Diſputation, / And pay with Ratiocination. / All this by Syllogiſm, true / In Mood and Figure, he wou'd do.

As the requirements of mass democracy forced the gentleman intellectual from the political scene, the new style political leaders felt the need to flatter the electorate by stressing the superiority of inborn, natural, intuitive and folkish wisdom and to devaluate the ratiocinations of the cultivated.

Where the Qur’an has not been explicit, the Hadith has often supplied guidance, providing an intermediate source of knowledge between the text of the Holy Book itself and the ratiocinations of the religious lawyers, the fuqaha’, who had recourse, when all else failed, to such principles as analogical reasoning and personal judgement.

Word Forms

• ratiocinations

Synonyms for ratiocination

Depending on context, synonyms include reasoning.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reasoning, discursion, ratiocinatio, argument, deduction, argumentation.

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