(1) a tendency to ratiocinate in isolation(2) If the candidate seems prepared to ratiocinate every policy question rather than apply values to its solution, that candidate will lose.(3) Almost definitely two, actually, since she knew there were three new arrivals, and of course, she had already met one, she ratiocinated .(4) The city being the media capital of Punjab has sharpened their ratiocinative faculties and given them sufficient opportunity to express themselves on social, economic, political, cultural and other issues.(5) I don't think it's circular, really, to rely on showing rather than on ratiocination as a bedrock for philosophy.(6) Stafford's over-arching description for this transition is the change from a visual to a verbal culture, from one based on the instructive power of sensations to one rooted in the ratiocinative skills of language.(7) One of his premises is that ratiocination is dependent on emotion, as mind is on body.(8) Modern detective fiction is usually traced back to Edgar Allan Poe's trilogy of short stories about C. Auguste Dupin, the archetypal ratiocinative sleuth, starting with The Murders in the Rue Morgue.(9) The opportunity law students get to compete in oral advocacy and presentation of cases in the most ratiocinative way still keeps the spirit of moot courts burning.(10) Man is said, for instance, to be the ‘rational animal,’ but you won't find much ratiocinating among fetuses.(11) But Woolrich pretty much dispensed altogether with the ratiocination of traditional crime fiction.(12) I've never learned enough about the details of his calculus ratiocinator to determine the answer.(13) Since this nature is rational and spiritual, reason is understood to be both ratiocinative and contemplative, but contemplation is the most sublime function of the soul.(14) Salisbury remained unmoved by the ambassador's ratiocination .(15) One fondly imagines that one reaches opinions by personal ratiocination , but of course many of them one inherits.(16) His father, Alan Fry, was written up as the villain in these early times; an inventor whose ‘infuriatingly, cold, precise ratiocinating engine of a brain fuelled by a wholly egocentric passion.’
