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v. - Reason methodologically and logically.

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Usage examples (8)
  • Critical thinking means to ratiocinate, as opposed to merely engaging in rationalizing ...
  • Imagine, then, that the Whiggery of Bow Street were to rise up against the proposition that their science was to be deduced from 'certain propensities of human nature,' and...
  • The Cobbler put the forefinger of the right hand on the forefinger of the left; it is the gesture of a man about to ratiocinate or demonstrate, as Quintilian, in his...
  • Quite often, when i have suspected that conduct was conspiratorial, it turned out to be the result of unimaginable levels of ignorance, unimaginable inabilities to...
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