ratiocination

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The movie again employs what might be called Ratiocination Visualization — brief, vigorous montages showing how Holmes thought through some devilish conundrum — and they’re still cool but now familiar.

From Time • Dec. 15, 2011

What I have been saying of Ratiocination, may be said of Taste, and is confirmed by the obvious analogy between the two.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry

Ratiocination is a sort of speaking, eliciting something probable from the fact under consideration itself, which being explained and known of itself, confirms itself by its own power and principles.

From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Ratiocination, thus restricted and put into grooves, is what I have called Inference, and the science, which is its regulating principle, is Logic.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry

Among Fallacies of Ratiocination are to be ranked in the first place, all the cases of vicious syllogism laid down in the books.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart