ratiocination
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ɹætɪˌɒsɪˈneɪʃn̩/
  • (GA) IPA: /ɹætiˌɑsiˈneɪʃn̩/, /ɹæʃi-/
Noun

ratiocination (uncountable)

  1. Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process#Noun|process of reasoning.
    • 1843, John Stuart Mill, “Of Inference, or Reasoning, in General”, in A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. [...] In Two Volumes, volume I, London: John W[illiam] Parker, […], OCLC 156109929 ↗, § 3, page 223 ↗:
      Reasoning, in the extended sense in which I use the term, and in which it is synonymous with Inference, is popularly said to be of two kinds: reasoning from particulars to generals, and reasoning from generals to particulars; the former being called Induction, the latter Ratiocination or Syllogism. […] The meaning intended by these expressions is, that Induction is inferring a proposition from propositions less general than itself, and Ratiocination is inferring a proposition from propositions equally or more general.
  2. Thought or reasoning that is exact#Adjective|exact, valid and rational.
  3. A proposition arrived at by such thought.
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