ratiocination
[ rash-ee-os-uh-ney-shuhn, -oh-suh-, rat-ee- ]
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noun
the process of logical reasoning.
Origin of ratiocination
11520–30; <Latin ratiōcinātiōn- (stem of ratiōcinātiō), equivalent to ratiōcināt(us) (see ratiocinate) + -iōn--ion
Other words from ratiocination
- ra·ti·oc·i·na·tive, adjective
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How to use ratiocination in a sentence
The ratiocinative coples the partes of a ratiocination, and it either inferres the conclusion or the reason.
Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue | Alexander HumeEither half of it, the Ratiocinative or the Inductive, would have surpassed any previous work on the same subject.
And of it ther be tuoe sortes, the one enunciative, and the other ratiocinative.
Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue | Alexander HumeThe eagle eye of his genius perceived intuitively what other men generally attain only as the result of ratiocinative process.
Tobias Smollett | Oliphant SmeatonIt would be absurd to say that the ratiocinative, literal mind is higher than the ideal.
Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex | William E. Gates
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