Example Sentences

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“It might sound like it is reasoning; however, it is bound by its data set.”

From Scientific American • May 25, 2023

How is reasoning from specific instances to generalizations similar to reasoning from the past to the future?

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

There is reasoning behind his Simon Cowell level of cut-throat micro-management.

From The Guardian • Jul. 5, 2013

The heart contingent exploring the timing hypothesis is reasoning the same way.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2010

This is not reasoning physically, or by the inductive method of proceeding upon matter of fact; it is reasoning fantastically, or by making gratuitous supposition founded merely on imagination.

From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by Hutton, James