Word Finder - reasoning

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To deduce or come to a conclusion by being rational

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To perform a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to argue.

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To converse; to compare opinions.

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To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.

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I reasoned the matter with my friend.

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To support with reasons, as a request.

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To persuade by reasoning or argument.

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to reason one into a belief; to reason one out of his plan

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(with down) To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.

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to reason down a passion

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(usually with out) To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.

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to reason out the causes of the librations of the moon

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The deduction of inferences or interpretations from premises; abstract thought; ratiocination.

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A Rastafari meeting held for the purposes of chanting, prayer and discussion.

He considered her reasoning and then sighed.

There was no reasoning with him, so she accepted a ride with her best friend, Connie.

Let me offer my reasoning on this.

He wasn't demanding or pleading, he was reasoning with her.

She had been the one who insisted that they wait until after marriage, but it was Alex who came up with sound reasoning for it.

The situation was out of control and reasoning with him wasn't going to work.

Stephen accuses Butler of reasoning in a circle.

Intuitionalism also has its restatements of theistic reasoning little modified by Kant.

They left the bull where it lay, reasoning that if they removed it, the bear might go hunting fresh meat.

His reasoning was that they could afford the new furniture and it supported local businesses.

You're the one who tacked on the reasoning that he had become irresponsible.

She wasn't the one being difficult, and her reasoning was sound.

This confusion Lotze, who had been trained in the school of mathematical reasoning, tried to dispel.

In this part of the work, as in the preceding, his reasoning depends essentially upon his peculiar view of natural agents and their activities.

This reasoning of Fechner's has given rise to a great mass of controversy, but the fundamental mistake in it is simple.

Vigour of reasoning and originality of view were not his characteristics as a writer; nor will the student who has raked these dust-heaps of miscellaneous learning and oldfashioned mysticism discover more than a few sentences of genuine enthusiasm and simple-hearted aspiration to repay his trouble and reward his patience.

Dean was glad to see Fred's line of reasoning stray away from the Dawkinses.

Every Russian might have predicted it, not by reasoning but by the feeling implanted in each of us and in our fathers.

By some such process of reasoning as this must the idea of changing the succession to the throne, by setting aside Alexius, have first occurred to the mind of Peter the Great.

Before a similar mode of reasoning, all the other distinctive articles of the Romish creed "disappeared like a dream "; and " after a full conviction," on Christmas day, 1754, he received the sacrament in the church of Lausanne.

There is no subject of human study which may not be at some time or other of economic significance, and anything which affects the character, the ideals or the environment of man may make it necessary to modify our assumptions and our reasoning with regard to his conduct in economic affairs.

In common with other sciences, economics makes use of " abstractions"; but if for some problems we employ symbolic processes of reasoning, we must keep clearly in view the limits of their significance, and neither endow the symbols with attributes they can never possess, nor lose sight of the realities behind them.

On the critical side this teaching is now admittedly valid against the older empiricism, and the cogency of the reasoning by which his constructive theory is supported is generally recognized.

Even Leibnitz,' who initiated a more modern point of view, follows the tradition in thus confining the scope of mathematics properly so called, while apparently conceiving it as a department of a yet wider science of reasoning.

The term in Aristotelian logic is opposed to dialectic, as scientific proof to probable reasoning.

If my reasoning stopped there, you would probably start fishing around for the receipt for this book and read up on your bookseller's return policy.

Both Mr. Gilman and Mr. Keith, the teachers who prepared her for college, were struck by her power of constructive reasoning; and she was excellent in pure mathematics, though she seems never to have enjoyed it much.

So it is impossible to understand by what reasoning the historians reach the conclusion that this maneuver was a profound one.

But to understand phenomena man has, besides abstract reasoning, experience by which he verifies his reflections.

C. Winkler decided the atomic weight of germanium by similar reasoning.

His influence was due as much to his saintly character and to the gentleness of his manners as to the force of his reasoning.

But on the assumption that "mathematics" is to denote a science well marked out by its subject matter and its methods from other topics of thought, and that at least it is to include all topics habitually assigned to it, there is now no option but to employ "mathematics" in the general sense' of the "science concerned with the logical deduction of consequences from the general premisses of all reasoning."

Whatever be the historical worth of this story, it may safely be said that it cannot be disproved by deductive reasoning from the premisses of abstract logic. The most we can do is to assert that a universe in which such things are liable to happen on a large scale is unfitted for the practical application of the theory of cardinal numbers.

Accordingly, every treatise on applied mathematics, properly so-called, is directed to the criticism of the "laws" from which the reasoning starts, or to a suggestion of results which experiment may hope to find.

The cell, together with this balancing electromotive force, is thus a reversible system in true equilibrium, and the thermodynamical reasoning applicable to such systems can be used to examine its properties.

By this reasoning Helmholtz showed how to obtain an expression for the work done.

The second includes definitions of technical terms in common use, together with so much of the elementary theory as is necessary for understanding the experimental work described in subsequent portions of the article; a number of formulae and results are given for purposes of reference, but the mathematical reasoning by which they are obtained is not generally detailed, authorities being cited whenever the demonstrations are not likely to be found in ordinary textbooks.

Pascal and P. de Fermat had initiated he brought very nearly to perfection; but the demonstrations are so involved, and the omissions in the chain of reasoning so frequent, that the Theorie analytique (1812) is to the best mathematicians a work requiring most arduous study.

The device known as the method of least squares, for reducing numerous equations of condition to the number of unknown quantities to be determined, had been adopted as a practically convenient rule by Gauss and Legendre; but Laplace first treated it as a problem in probabilities, and proved by an intricate and difficult course of reasoning that it was also the most advantageous, the mean of the probabilities of error in the determination of the elements being thereby reduced to a minimum.

The distinction between algebraical and arithmetical reasoning then lies mainly in the fact that the former is in a more condensed form than the latter; an unknown quantity being represented by a special symbol, and other symbols being used as a kind of shorthand for verbal expressions.

While, therefore, the logical development of algebraic reasoning must depend on certain fundamental relations, it is important that in the early study of the subject these relations should be introduced gradually, and not until there is some empirical acquaintance with the phenomena with which they are concerned.

The important thing to notice is that where, in any of these five cases, one statement is followed by another, the second is not to be regarded as obtained from the first by logical reasoning involving such general axioms as that " if equals are taken from equals the remainders are equal "; the fact being that the two statements are merely different ways of expressing the same relation.

Arithmetical and Algebraical Treatment of Equations.-The following will illustrate the passage from arithmetical to algebraical reasoning.

Generally, we may say that algebraic reasoning in reference to equations consists in the alteration of the form of a statement rather than in the deduction of a new statement; i.e.

The subsequent reasoning is arithmetical.

In addition to these, there are cases in which letters can usefully be employed for general arithmetical reasoning.

This property enables us to establish, by simple reasoning, certain relations between binomial coefficients.

It can be shown by the above reasoning that this can be expressed as a series of terms containing descending powers of n, the first term being nr+1/(r+I).

That state of mind was due to the fact that the groupings so recognized did not profess to be simply the result of scientific reasoning, but were necessarily regarded as the expressions of the " insight " of some more or less gifted persons into a plan or system which had been arbitrarily chosen by the Creator.

Nothing can be further from the truth than the once favourite theory that instincts are the survivals of lapsed reasoning processes.