Ratiocinative

When I use the word ratiocinative, it's because it is the correct word for the job. ❋ Gailcarriger (2009)

The process is often described as a ratiocinative or inferential process, and from this standpoint is contrasted with deductive reasoning. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

At first, in ratiocinative processes, its premises must cover little ground and be fully elaborated, and in the course of the deduction or induction there can be no omission of the smallest detail. ❋ Unknown (1900)

The introspective, contemplative, ratiocinative, philosophic aspect of Holmes gets obscured as Ritchie turns him into a 21st-century man of action in the mould of Indiana Jones and Daniel Craig's ultra-tough James Bond. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Similarly, the characters in Henry James's fiction, which most readers find quite convincing even when the fictions themselves are judged to be somewhat short on dramatic action, share the obsessed and ratiocinative qualties of James's style. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Poe is his own great chain of being, his own Palace of Memory stalked by the Red Death, or imploding into the tarn as it may be, which is itself a code to ratiocinative processes. ❋ Princeofcairo (2009)

Most of us, I think, read whodunits for the pleasure of following a ratiocinative process, not to be left wondering which fictional character did what to whom; the real world offers far more interesting imponderables than that. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The poets revolted against the ratiocinative, the descriptive; they thought and felt by fits, unbalanced; they reflected. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It then signifies the discursive, ratiocinative process in contrast to the immediate, intuitive grasp of the intellect. ❋ Dino Bigongiari (1997)

I noted that the judge wrote: While other commentators might have taken a more ratiocinative approach, the defendants were entitled to use instead these particular terms of invective in this context. ❋ Unknown (2006)

While other commentators might have taken a more ratiocinative approach, the defendants were entitled to use instead these particular terms of invective in this context. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Hence choice is either desiderative reason or ratiocinative desire, and such an origin of action is a man. ❋ Aristotle (2002)

My intention was to return directly to my dwelling, where—shut off from the distractions of the world—I could focus the full power of my ratiocinative faculties on the mysteries at hand. ❋ Harold Schechter (1999)

It was a reflective, even ratiocinative audience, and what it was looking for in Deep Throat was not immediately easy to know. ❋ Larry McMurtry (1987)

[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)