reasoning

To his critics, he explained—sometimes at painful length—his reasoning against it.

Again, the reasoning sounds, well, reasonable, and is sourced to a respectable organization, the Samaritans.

But even interrogating successful proposals leads to unsatisfactory reasoning.

Following this line of reasoning to its logical conclusion, the way to achieve world peace is to give everyone atomic bombs.

Subjectivity and exaggerating the foibles or bad reasoning of the opposition in political coverage was the norm.

Something influenced by his reasoning, Ripperda employed the greatest part of the day in writing a large packet for his son.

This reasoning may seem to many persons mere casuistry, mere sophistical juggling with words.

His brain—the part where human reasoning holds normal sway—was dominated by the purely primitive instinct of flight.

Such reasoning as she made use of she climaxed by an offer of no less a sum than a hundred pistoles.

This reasoning displeased the dwarfs, and one of them named Tad denounced it with much indignation.