ratiocinative
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And the expressions we constantly use in our arguments—"analogy implies," "the cases are not parallel," "by parity of reasoning," "there is no similarity,"—show how constantly the idea of likeness underlies our ratiocinative processes.
From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer
His actual knowledge, however, had remained mere wretched patchwork, his logic came to an end wherever bold reliance upon the intuitive process was needed to supply missing links in the ratiocinative chain.
From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Ludwig Lewisohn
No ratiocinative deduction can be more incontestable than that, since I have thoughts, there must be an I to have them.
From Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton
Still, he tried to explain the problem, for he was of an eminently ratiocinative temper.
From The Aspirations of Jean Servien by Anatole France
Dianoetic, dī-a-nō-et′ik, adj. capable of thought, thinking: belonging to the ratiocinative faculties of the mind.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
