Ma'anar ƙamus na kalmar "hankali" ita ce hanyar yin tunani game da wani abu ta hanya mai ma'ana da hankali don samar da ƙarshe ko hukunci. Ya ƙunshi yin amfani da tunani mai mahimmanci, cirewa, da ƙima don kimanta bayanai da kuma yanke hukunci. Tunani na iya zama duka biyun rabewa, farawa daga ƙa'idodi na gaba ɗaya da amfani da su zuwa takamaiman lokuta, ko inductive, farawa daga takamaiman abubuwan lura da yin taƙaitaccen bayani akan su. Ƙwarewa ce mai mahimmanci a fannoni kamar falsafa, lissafi, kimiyya, da shari'a, da sauransu.
1. I do my best to quell the tension tightening my chest, reasoning away an image of him prostrate on his studio floor.
2. The environmental insinuation is transparent, but that is as far as my reasoning takes me.
3. At first, the scientists thought that Homo Vampirous was a rabid, insane creature, incapable of reasoning or conscious thought.
4. For a brief moment, my reasoning mind broke through my physical desires.
5. Our minds will push to fill this space with logic, firing up the reasoning part of the brain in an effort to convince us with rational thinking to abandon the quest.
6. He made no attempt to meet these new woodfolk and would not allow anyone to speak to him about them, reasoning that the woodfolk were under oath not to reveal the presence of their kin.
7. Possessing his reasoning faculties in excited activity, at such times, and seeking his acquaintances with his wonted look and memory, he easily seemed personating only another phase of his natural character, and was accused, accordingly, of insulting arrogance and bad-heartedness.
8. Now, all such reasoning and from such data must, of course, be simply analogical.
9. Dillon understood the logic of his reasoning clearly and followed closely behind.
10. She smelled of sweet rose and lavender, and he felt his reasoning waning.