One's ratiocinative powers. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
When I use the word ratiocinative, it's because it is the correct word for the job. From Wordnik.com. [All About Language ~ The Lost Art of English] Reference
The process is often described as a ratiocinative or inferential process, and from this standpoint is contrasted with deductive reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
At first, in ratiocinative processes, its premises must cover little ground and be fully elaborated, and in the course of the deduction or induction there can be no omission of the smallest detail. From Wordnik.com. [Phenomena of Literary Evolution] Reference
We attain that only through the cogitative and ratiocinative processes of judgment and inference. From Wordnik.com. [The Angels and Us] Reference
Fourth Science based on the principles of ratiocinative inference and having Emancipation for its end. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Having acquired by the science of ratiocinative inference and by waiting upon preceptors, the Rich, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
It then signifies the discursive, ratiocinative process in contrast to the immediate, intuitive grasp of the intellect. From Wordnik.com. [The Political Ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas] Reference
The poets revolted against the ratiocinative, the descriptive; they thought and felt by fits, unbalanced; they reflected. From Wordnik.com. [Unputdownable : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits] Reference
The "Natural Magic" is the more ratiocinative, Mr. Dendy's essay the more poetical, the more imaginative, and to us the more interesting. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
A philosophical system or a mathematical demonstration may be said to possess such unity; also, a history or any ratiocinative compo - sition. From Wordnik.com. [ORGANICISM] Reference
We grant the "poppet;" we concede the "chickabiddy;" and then sternly inquire if an excess of loyalty is to impugn the reason of the most ratiocinative editor?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841] Reference
While other commentators might have taken a more ratiocinative approach, the defendants were entitled to use instead these particular terms of invective in this context. From Wordnik.com. [Libel Laws and Scoundrel Refuges - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
Poe is his own great chain of being, his own Palace of Memory stalked by the Red Death, or imploding into the tarn as it may be, which is itself a code to ratiocinative processes. From Wordnik.com. [princeofcairo: Two Hundred Circling Years] Reference
My intention was to return directly to my dwelling, where—shut off from the distractions of the world—I could focus the full power of my ratiocinative faculties on the mysteries at hand. From Wordnik.com. [Nevermore] Reference
I noted that the judge wrote: While other commentators might have taken a more ratiocinative approach, the defendants were entitled to use instead these particular terms of invective in this context. From Wordnik.com. [Libel Laws and Scoundrel Refuges - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
They roughly correspond to intellect and ratiocinative reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference
His mind is too full, too crowded, too ratiocinative, for easy and frugal utterance. From Wordnik.com. [Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned] Reference
It would be absurd to say that the ratiocinative, literal mind is higher than the ideal. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs] Reference
Still, he tried to explain the problem, for he was of an eminently ratiocinative temper. From Wordnik.com. [The Aspirations of Jean Servien] Reference
Hence choice is either desiderative reason or ratiocinative desire, and such an origin of action is a man. From Wordnik.com. [The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS] Reference
"Sherlock Holmes" - and also again, later on - the famous sleuth demonstrates his ratiocinative powers in a way undreamed of by his creator. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
The faculty of computing is among the very last of the psychical habitudes acquired by man, and is an evidence of high ratiocinative ability. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals] Reference
They have a principle of union congenial to the state of their intellect, and they have not the ratiocinative habit to scrutinize and invalidate it. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity] Reference
Waxing developing vero beach florida homes of diapsida from ratiocinative corrugation who enthralling out huskily this by sledge the gambol rss luffa of mr. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
In the childhood of those sciences the imagination opened a way, and furnished materials, on which the ratiocinative powers in a maturer state operated with success. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Remains, Volume 1] Reference
So loosen that hang-up you may have on this not being your grandfather's Holmes, because with a little ratiocinative, you will find this really isn't all that different. From Wordnik.com. [Obsessed With Film] Reference
As he traveled eastward, he engaged in a series of ratiocinative processes and the result of the deductive and inductive reasoning which he applied to the case in hand, was as follows. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton] Reference
These principles, for the most part, are so embedded in our ratiocinative instincts, that they are employed quite unconsciously, and can be dragged to light only by much patient effort. From Wordnik.com. [Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays] Reference
Humor is of earlier growth than Wit, and it is in accordance with this earlier growth that it has more affinity with the poetic tendencies, while Wit is more nearly allied to the ratiocinative intellect. From Wordnik.com. [The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete] Reference
Being compelled to divide his time between London and the rural town where a local brewer is giving him a run for his money seems to sharpen Lenox's ratiocinative skills even as it broadens his character. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
His actual knowledge, however, had remained mere wretched patchwork, his logic came to an end wherever bold reliance upon the intuitive process was needed to supply missing links in the ratiocinative chain. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Lily and Other Stories] Reference
Wilhelm von Humboldt, when he laid down that the incorporative characteristic essential to all the American languages is the result of the exaltation of the imaginative over the ratiocinative elements of mind. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Upon the Maya-Tzental Perez Codex with a Concluding Note Upon the Linguistic Problem of the Maya Glyphs] Reference
The Great Minds at the Institute must have figured out that the very people whose lax morals and defective ratiocinative abilities did so much to create the problems are the ones to solve the world's problems. From Wordnik.com. [Aspen Times - Top Stories] Reference
To include Milton's Hymn in an anthology of metaphysical poems will seem less warrantable, for Milton is not enamoured of the quaint, the homely, or the too ratiocinative evolution, though he was also an erudite poet. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction. Grierson, Herbert J.C] Reference
When, if ever, I am tempted to preen myself on some peculiarly close piece of ratiocinative reasoning, I shall say: 'Little man, pigmy, remember the gray car.'". From Wordnik.com. [Number Seventeen] Reference
So loosen that hang-up you may have on this not being your grandfather’s Holmes, because with a little ratiocinative, you will find this really isn’t all that different. From Wordnik.com. [Matt Holmes takes on SHERLOCK HOLMES! | Obsessed With Film] Reference
3 According to Descartes, the proper operation of man’s angelic intellect is intuitive, not ratiocinative or discursive. From Wordnik.com. [The Angels and Us] Reference
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