“But Woolrich pretty much dispensed altogether with the ratiocination of traditional crime fiction.”

“One of his premises is that ratiocination is dependent on emotion, as mind is on body.”

“I don't think it's circular, really, to rely on showing rather than on ratiocination as a bedrock for philosophy.”

“Rathbone was born to wear Holmes's cape and deerstalker cap, to smoke his old brier-root pipe, and to rattle off his ratiocinations with merry hubris.”

“Immeasurably perturbed by the possibility of Angelica's loss, Orlando continues to deceive himself with feeble ratiocinations.”

“It is only after the presence of studies of this kind that Kornblatt's ratiocinations could be read with true Interest.”