n. Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.
n. Thought or reasoning that is exact, valid and rational.
n. A proposition arrived at by such thought.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The mental process of passing from the cognition of premises to the cognition of the conclusion; reasoning.
n. A mental product and object consisting of premises and a conclusion drawn from them; inference; an argumentation.
n.Synonyms Reasoning, etc. See inference.
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n. logical and methodical reasoning
n. the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
Word Usage
"Argumentative as the Buddhist suttas are, their aim is strictly practical, even when their language appears scholastic, and the burden of all their ratiocination is the same and very simple."