reasoning

The writer of “Politics and the English Language” recognized such convoluted reasoning and the dangers associated with it:

At Harvard, he recruited Radcliffe coeds to work in his lab, reasoning that “if you have pretty girls in the lab, you don’t have to go out.”

Chief Constable Craig Guildford has been asked to appear before The Home Affairs Committee to explain the reasoning behind the ban, by Birmingham's Safety Advisory Group.

Such theological reasoning is serious, stalwart and chilly, not unrelated to the cold logic of double predestination and the denial of free will.

The FBI explained its reasoning in a three-page document sent to police agencies across the country last month.