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

There is an analogy, in this respect, between Ratiocination and Memory, though the latter may be exercised without antecedents or media, whereas the former requires them in its very idea.

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

But fallacies of Ratiocination properly lie in syllogisms.

From Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic by Stebbing, W. (William)

Ratiocination and its kindred processes, which are the necessary instruments of political progress, are, taking things as we find them, hostile to imagination and auxiliary to sense.

From Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity by Newman, John Henry

When, in short, the conclusion is more general than the largest of the premisses, the argument is commonly called Induction; when less general, or equally general, it is Ratiocination.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by Mill, John Stuart