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What does ratiocination mean?

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Noun
  1. Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.
  2. Thought or reasoning that is exact, valid and rational.
  3. A proposition arrived at by such thought.
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I don't think it's circular, really, to rely on showing rather than on ratiocination as a bedrock for philosophy.
The purity-laws stand at the pinnacle of talmudic abstraction and ratiocination.
It was precisely his insistence upon the importance of personal decision, direct and unmediated by artificial ratiocination, that lay at the root of his rejection of Hegel.
One fondly imagines that one reaches opinions by personal ratiocination, but of course many of them one inherits.
Students will encounter many variations of what Poe called the tale of ratiocination, as well as the tale of mystery and imagination.
One of his premises is that ratiocination is dependent on emotion, as mind is on body.

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