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If the reasons are not adequate support for the conclusion, then the reasoner commits an informal fallacy.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

A reasoner can use several instances in their experience as premises to draw a general conclusion and then use that generalization as a premise to draw a conclusion about a specific new instance.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

In that tale, Poe didn’t simply invent the lurid tropes of the detective story and introduce C. Auguste Dupin, the disarming reasoner who would be the model for Sherlock Holmes.

From Slate • Aug. 2, 2021

He was a rigorous reasoner with a sure command of legal subtleties and constitutional principles and a knack for connecting them to the lives of ordinary people and the messy realities of politics and government.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 12, 2015

“It is plain that nature took but little trouble in fashioning his outer man...As a close observer and cogent reasoner, he has few equals and perhaps no superior in the world,” the reporter wrote.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan