I don't think it's circular, really, to rely on showing rather than on ratiocination as a bedrock for philosophy. |
One fondly imagines that one reaches opinions by personal ratiocination, but of course many of them one inherits. |
But Woolrich pretty much dispensed altogether with the ratiocination of traditional crime fiction. |
It is only after the presence of studies of this kind that Kornblatt's ratiocinations could be read with true Interest. |
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. |