Ratiocination

Argumentative as the Buddhist suttas are, their aim is strictly practical, even when their language appears scholastic, and the burden of all their ratiocination is the same and very simple. ❋ Charles Eliot (1896)

There is a narrower sense, in which the name reasoning is confined to the form of inference which is termed ratiocination, and of which the syllogism is the general type. ❋ John Stuart Mill (1839)

Up against a ticking clock, myriad plot twists and turns and a roster of red herring suspects, the hero eventually solves the mystery through logical deduction, a process known as ratiocination, not to mention a little luck. ❋ [email protected] (2010)

a soliddity of judgement in him, so infinite a fancy bounde in by a most logicall ratiocination, such a vast knowledge, that he was not ignorant in any thinge, yet such an excessive humillity as if he had knowne nothinge, that they frequently resorted and dwelt with him, as in a Colledge scituated in a purer ayre, so that his house was ❋ Various (N/A)

The squareness of it showed "ratiocination"; and the fulness under the eyes "language". ❋ Bram Stoker (1879)

And it is worth attention that when Clifford is aroused to sudden action by 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. ❋ Lathrop, George P (1876)

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. ❋ George Parsons Lathrop (1874)

Employing Poe's methods of "ratiocination," Scooby and friends embark on a madcap chase through the spooky house! ❋ ComicList (2010)

It lays stress on the right things—the survival, one might say the reaccentuation, of the metaphysical strain, the concetti metafisici ed ideali as Testi calls them in contrast to the simpler imagery of classical poetry, of mediaeval Italian poetry; the more intellectual, less verbal, character of their wit compared with the conceits of the Elizabethans; the finer psychology of which their conceits are often the expression; their learned imagery; the argumentative, subtle evolution of their lyrics; above all the peculiar blend of passion and thought, feeling and ratiocination which is their greatest achievement. ❋ Herbert J.C. Grierson (1921)

"ratiocination," that is, of the ingenious thinking out of a problem, as ❋ William Patterson Atkinson (N/A)

In fact, however, we are never told how the saboteur carried out his mission, and its unraveling is heavier on atmospherics than ratiocination. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And obviously, stare decisis is not some simple, narrowly conceived ratiocination applied to prior case law. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But later on there's this wonderful illustration of American ratiocination: ❋ John (2009)

[My mind] has turned to [mush], so I am no longer capable of ratiocination. Obviously your ratiocination is [flawed], as that is 'apileovit' ❋ Whiteazanianjew (2010)