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Definition of Ratiocinating
1. ratiocinate [v] - See also: ratiocinate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ratiocinating
Literary usage of Ratiocinating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Autology: An Inductive System of Mental Science; Whose Centre is the Will by David Henry Hamilton (1873)
"So also with regard to the operation of ratiocinating; if a result or ... is meant
in the cognizing, or ratiocinating, or any other operation (for this is ..."
2. Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell from Things Heard and Seen by Emanuel Swedenborg (1875)
"The faculty of ratiocinating \n be- ... In the other life these are deprive'!
of the faculty of ratiocinating, whe have closed for ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"To see facts, not to argue or raisan- niren, was what life meant for him ; and
I think he often positively loathed the ratiocinating type of mind. ..."
4. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"Our own is open, frank, resolute, perhaps hasty ; the other assuming, pedantic,
ratiocinating, and tenacious ' (STANHOPE, iii. 332). ..."
5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1895)
"... their speculative interest—as far as it exists — is the result of the activity
of the ratiocinating wheels put in motion by the moral needs. ..."
6. History of Philosophy by Alfred Weber, Frank Thilly (1896)
"J. Stuart Mill (1806-1873) is the author of a System of Logic, ratiocinating and
Inductive, London, 1843 ff.: a capital work, which aims to do for induction ..."
7. Memories and Studies by William James (1911)
"... was what life meant for him; and I think he often positively loathed the
ratiocinating type of ..."
8. Memories and Studies by William James (1911)
"... was what life meant for him; and I think he often positively loathed the
ratiocinating type of ..."
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