Ratiocination Definition

noun
Reasoning; the process of exact, rational, reasoning something through.
Webster's New World Law

Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.

Wiktionary

Thought or reasoning that is exact, valid and rational.

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A proposition arrived at by such thought.

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Noun

Singular:
ratiocination
Plural:
ratiocinations

Origin of Ratiocination

  • From French ratiocination, from Latin ratiocinatio (“reasoning, argumentation, a syllogism"), from ratiocinatus, past participle of ratiocinari (“to reason")

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Ratiocination Sentence Examples

  • Reason is called common sense to distinguish it from ratiocination with uses logic and rational reasoning.

  • For the other half he falls back on ratiocination.

  • In formal logic the drawing of inferences is frequently called ratiocination.

  • He went too far and fast for even such a Federalist disbeliever in democracy as Gouverneur Morris; who, to Hamilton's assertion that democracy must be cast out to save the country, replied that " such necessity cannot be shown by a political ratiocination.

  • The term syllogism has been extended to cover certain forms of ratiocination which are not based on categorical propositions.

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