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---# Ratiocination

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Ratiocination from The Century Dictionary. noun The mental process of passing from the cognition of premises to the cognition of the conclusion; reasoning. noun A mental product and object consisting of premises and a conclusion drawn from them; inference; an argumentation. noun Synonyms Reasoning, etc. See inference. from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English. noun The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning. from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. noun Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning. noun Thought or reasoning that is exact, valid and rational. noun A proposition arrived at by such thought. from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. noun logical and methodical reasoning noun the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism) Etymologies from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License From French ratiocination, from Latin ratiocinatio ("reasoning, argumentation, a syllogism"), from ratiocinatus, past participle of ratiocinari ("to reason")


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