ratiocinative

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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 Lewisohn, Ludwig

“Well, how goes the ratiocinative process?’ was Brett’s greeting.

From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Tracy, Louis

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

The ratiocinative coples the partes of a ratiocination, and it either inferres the conclusion or the reason.

From Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles by Wheatley, Henry Benjamin

It would be absurd to say that the ratiocinative, literal mind is higher than the ideal.

From Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs by Gates, William