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Definition of Reasoning by elimination
1. Noun. Analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reasoning By Elimination
Literary usage of Reasoning by elimination
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"This affords a method of reasoning by elimination, and is most useful in deciding
between possibilities. In this form of the syllogism the causal relation ..."
2. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"This affords a method of reasoning by elimination, and is most useful in deciding
between possibilities. In this form of the syllogism the causal relation ..."
3. Modern Salesmanagement: A Practical Handbook and Guide by Justus George Frederick (1919)
"It is also true that the Euclidean process of reasoning by elimination is valuable,
in working from statistics. Facts which at first glance do not have ..."
4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1903)
"... which, by a process of reasoning by elimination, masterly in its method, has
been ' run to ground' as in every degree of probability the larva of ..."
5. A History of Dentistry from the Most Ancient Times Until the End of the by Vincenzo Guerini (1909)
"... nor as muscles, nor as glands, nor as viscera, nor as fat, nor as hair—a method
of reasoning by elimination which is very specious but far too weak! ..."
6. Efficient Composition: A College Rhetoric by Arthur Huntington Nason (1917)
"Marie Roget is only by courtesy included as a tale. It is an attempt to apply
the system of reasoning by elimination to the solution of an actual crime ..."
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