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
The ratiocinative faculty, then, as found in individuals, is not a general instrument of knowledge, but has its province, or is what may be called departmental.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
And of it ther be tuoe sortes, the one enunciative, and the other ratiocinative.
From Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
The faculty of computing is among the very last of the psychical habitudes acquired by man, and is an evidence of high ratiocinative ability.
From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by James Weir
I do not ask," resumed the Philosopher, "as one who should imply that the probability of even a complete saturation ought to appal a ratiocinative being, endowed with wisdom and virtue.
From The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett
