ratiocination

How to use ratiocination in a sentence

• This is joining two probabilities by way of ratiocination or Deduction; the result of which is a less probability than either.

  A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive | John Stuart Mill

• And, even when he sides with the opposite school, it does not mean that he trusts to any scientific process of ratiocination.

  The Life of Mazzini | Bolton King

• The former would be ranked, in our distribution, among fallacies of generalization, the latter among those of ratiocination.

  A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive | John Stuart Mill

• At the same time I needn't say that in this affair that we're now in the middle of—there's no question of ratiocination.

  The Title | Arnold Bennett

• Abraham arrived at this belief through ratiocination and endeavored to convince others.

  A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy | Isaac Husik