NOUN
- logical and methodical reasoning
- the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
How To Use ratiocination In A Sentence
- If in this way we are to understand any thing of God's nature, we must by consequence understand so much of our own nature: that is, that it is a reasonable nature, that it is an intelligent nature, that it is a nature capable of improving itself in point of knowledge, by ratiocination and discourse; and even of knowledge concerning the highest and greatest, and first knowable, that is God and the very nature of God. The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
- The requirements of "New Curriculum" about problem-solving and reasonable ratiocination are intrinsically consistent to Polya's education theory.
- Salisbury remained unmoved by the ambassador's ratiocination.
- Maths is not only a knowledge system but also a rational thinking and argument system. It is a systematism theory knowledge summation by height abstract and strict logic ratiocination.
- We organize the dissertation in order according to the sequence of logic ratiocination.
- Judge Pyncheon's death, the coruscating play of his intellect is almost precisely that brilliant but defective kind of ratiocination which Poe so delights to display. A Study of Hawthorne
- I don't think it's circular, really, to rely on showing rather than on ratiocination as a bedrock for philosophy.
- That is to say, such as shew themselves, not by the immediate self-evidence of the terms, but by consequences and deductions drawn from some known principle by human ratiocination or discourse, and the judgment which men use to pass upon things in the strength and light thereof. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III.
- One fondly imagines that one reaches opinions by personal ratiocination, but of course many of them one inherits.
- I have seen you again + again at a time of confusion take the course almost blindly because long after your powers of ratiocination were exhausted you clung to the idea of dauntless courage. A Life in Letters