ratiocination

Pronunciation: /ɹætɪˌɒsɪˈneɪʃn̩/

The English word “ratiocination” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.
Thought or reasoning that is exact, valid and rational.
A proposition arrived at by such thought.

Etymology

Borrowed from French ratiocination, from Latin ratiōcinātiō (“argumentation, reasoning, ratiocination; a syllogism”), from ratiōcinātus (“reckoned”) + -tiō (suffix forming a noun relating to some action or the result of an action). Ratiōcinātus is the perfect passive participle of ratiōcinor (“to compute, reckon; to argue, infer”), from ratiō (“reason, explanation”) (from reor (“to calculate,…

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