reasoning

[Rea·son*ing]

Reasoning is a logical, thoughtful way of thinking. When your teacher explains the reasoning behind his classroom rules, he makes it clear exactly why and how he came up with them.

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The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons.

Noun
thinking that is coherent and logical


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Reason

n.
The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons.

n.
That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument.


Reasoning

Rea"son*ing, n. 1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument.
His reasoning was sufficiently profound.
Syn. -- Argumentation; argument. -- Reasoning, Argumentation. Few words are more interchanged than these; and yet, technically, there is a difference between them. Reasoning is the broader term, including both deduction and induction. Argumentation denotes simply the former, and descends from the whole to some included part; while reasoning embraces also the latter, and ascends from a part to a whole. See Induction. Reasoning is occupied with ideas and their relations; argumentation has to do with the forms of logic. A thesis is set down: you attack, I defend it; you insist, I prove; you distinguish, I destroy your distinctions; my replies balance or overturn your objections. Such is argumentation. It supposes that there are two sides, and that both agree to the same rules. Reasoning, on the other hand, is often a natural process, by which we form, from the general analogy of nature, or special presumptions in the case, conclusions which have greater or less degrees of force, and which may be strengthened or weakened by subsequent experience.

The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons.

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Usage Examples

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.

It frequently happens that two persons, reasoning right on a mechanical subject, think alike and invent the same thing without any communication with each other.

Interactive computers and software will, I think, provide a less costly method of doing some kinds of inquiry, in knowledge acquisition and even reasoning and interaction.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

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Other Usage Examples

Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.

That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning.

For there is a sound reasoning upon all flowers. For flowers are peculiarly the poetry of Christ.

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.

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