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Note that Sir Gideon’s last name pays winking homage to a certain fussy Golden Age ratiocinator: In “Parrot,” he explains: “The t is silent, the accent is on the o.”

From Washington Post • Oct. 2, 2019

The words reason and reasoning, I believe, in most languages, strictly imply numeration, reckoning, proportion; the Latin ratio, ratiocinor, ratiocinator are sufficient examples.

From Observations on Madness and Melancholy Including Practical Remarks on those Diseases together with Cases and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection by Haslam, John

Leibniz had visions of an ideal language, a characteristica universalis and a calculus ratiocinator.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai

Mr. Russell himself is far too witty and athletic a ratiocinator simply to repeat the slander dogmatically.

From Meaning of Truth by James, William

The beginning of another conception of the office of methodology can be found in those thoughts which have become significant, especially in Leibnitz's fragments and drafts of a calculus ratiocinator or a spécieuse générale.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various