reasoning,

Roget category 476

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.4. Reasoning processes
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#476. Reasoning,

noun

reasoning ratiocination rationalism — dialectics, induction, generalization.
discussion, comment — ventilation — inquiry etc. 461.
argumentation, controversy, debate — polemics, wrangling — contention etc. 720 — logomachy^† — disputation, disceptation^† — paper war.
art of reasoning, logic.
process of reasoning, train of reasoning, chain of reasoning — deduction, induction, abduction — synthesis, analysis.
argument — case, plaidoyer^†, opening — lemma, proposition, terms, premises, postulate, data, starting point, principle — inference etc. (judgment) 480.
prosyllogism^†, syllogism — enthymeme^†, sorites^†, dilemma, perilepsis^†, a priori reasoning, reductio ad absurdum, horns of a dilemma, argumentum ad hominem [Lat.], comprehensive argument — empirema^†, epagoge^†.
[person who reasons] reasoner, logician, dialectician — disputant — controversialist, controvertist^† — wrangler, arguer, debater polemic, casuist, rationalist — scientist — eristic^†.
logical sequence — good case — correct just reasoning, sound reasoning, valid reasoning, cogent reasoning, logical reasoning, forcible reasoning, persuasive reasoning, persuasory reasoning^†, consectary reasoning^†, conclusive etc. 478 — subtle reasoning — force of argument, strong point, strong argument, persuasive argument.
arguments, reasons, pros and cons.

verb

reason, argue, discuss, debate, dispute, wrangle^†, argufy^†, bandy words, bandy arguments — chop logic — hold an argument, carry on an argument — controvert etc. (deny) 536 — canvass — comment upon, moralize upon — spiritualize — consider etc. (examine) 461.
open a discussion, open a case — try conclusions — join issue, be at issue — moot — come to the point — stir a question, agitate a question, ventilate a question, torture a question — take up a side, take up a case.
contend, take one's stand upon, insist, lay stress on — infer etc. 480.
follow from etc. (demonstration) 478.

adjective

reasoning etc. v. — rationalistic — argumentative, controversial, dialectic, polemical — discursory^†, discursive — disputatious — Aristotelian^†, eristic^†, eristical^†.
debatable, controvertible.
logical — relevant etc. 23.

adverb

for, because, hence, whence, seeing that, since, sith^†, then thence so — for that reason, for this reason, for which reason — for as, inasmuch as — whereas, ex concesso [Lat.], considering, in consideration of — therefore, wherefore — consequently, ergo, thus, accordingly — a fortiori.
in conclusion, in fine — finally, after all, au bout du compt [Fr.], on the whole, taking one thing with another.

phrase

ab actu ad posse valet consecutio [Lat.] — per troppo dibatter la verita si perde [It] — troppo disputare la verita fa errare [It].

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