Critical thinking means to ratiocinate, as opposed to merely engaging in rationalizing. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
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 thereon were to ratiocinate as follows. From Wordnik.com. [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2] Reference
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 remarks on the oratory of fingers, probably observes; or if he has failed to do so, it is a blot in his essay. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
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 ratiocinate. From Wordnik.com. [Firedoglake » Deborah Howell and Fred Hiatt: Fact Free and Loving It] Reference
We do not ratiocinate, we run. From Wordnik.com. [Woman and Womanhood A Search for Principles] Reference
Those creatures deliberate and ratiocinate!. From Wordnik.com. [Les Misérables] Reference
He gave us also the example of the philosopher who, when he thought most seriously to have withdrawn himself unto a solitary privacy, far from the rustling clutterments of the tumultuous and confused world, the better to improve his theory, to contrive, comment, and ratiocinate, was, notwithstanding his uttermost endeavours to free himself from all untoward noises, surrounded and environed about so with the barking of curs, bawling of mastiffs, bleating of sheep, prating of parrots, tattling of jackdaws, grunting of swine, girning of boars, yelping of foxes, mewing of cats, cheeping of mice, squeaking of weasels, croaking of frogs, crowing of cocks, cackling of hens, calling of partridges, chanting of swans, chattering of jays, peeping of chickens, singing of larks, creaking of geese, chirping of swallows, clucking of moorfowls, cucking of cuckoos, bumbling of bees, rammage of hawks, chirming of linnets, croaking of ravens, screeching of owls, whicking of pigs, gushing of hogs, curring. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3] Reference
He gave us also the example of the philosopher who, when he thought most seriously to have withdrawn himself unto a solitary privacy, for from the rustling clutterments of the tumultuous and confused world, the better to improve his theory, to contrive, comment, and ratiocinate, was, notwithstanding his uttermost endeavours to free himself from all untoward noises, surrounded and environed about so with the barking of curs, bawling of mastiffs, bleating of sheep, prating of parrots, tattling of jackdaws, grunting of swine, girning of boars, yelping of foxes, mewing of cats, cheeping of mice, squeaking of weasels, croaking of frogs, crowing of cocks, cackling of hens, calling of partridges, chanting of swans, chattering of jays, peeping of chickens, singing of larks, creaking of geese, chirping of swallows, clucking of moorfowls, cucking of cuckoos, bumbling of bees, rammage of hawks, chirming of linnets, croaking of ravens, screeching of owls, whicking of pigs, gushing of hogs, curring. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
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