ratiocinative
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And the "opinionative" and "ratiocinative" part is more limited than the lower reason; for it regards only things contingent.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
“Well, how goes the ratiocinative process?’ was Brett’s greeting.
From The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate by Tracy, Louis
Dryden’s natural powers, as all his critics have remarked, lay not so much in the imaginative as in the didactic, the declamatory, and the ratiocinative.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David
In the childhood of those sciences the imagination opened a way, and furnished materials, on which the ratiocinative powers in a maturer state operated with success.
From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
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
