ratiocination

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 Hume

• Either half of it, the Ratiocinative or the Inductive, would have surpassed any previous work on the same subject.

  Review of the Work of Mr John Stuart Mill Entitled, 'Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy.' | George Grote

• And of it ther be tuoe sortes, the one enunciative, and the other ratiocinative.

  Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue | Alexander Hume

• The eagle eye of his genius perceived intuitively what other men generally attain only as the result of ratiocinative process.

  Tobias Smollett | Oliphant Smeaton

• It 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