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ratiocination
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French ratiocination, from Latin rati?cin?ti? (“argumentation, reasoning, ratiocination; a syllogism”), from rati?cin?tus (“reckoned”) + -ti? (“suffix forming a noun relating to some action or the result of an action”). Rati?cin?tus is the perfect passive participle of rati?cinor (“to compute, reckon; to argue, infer”), from rati? (“reason, explanation”) (from reor (“to calculate, reckon”), possibly from Proto-Italic *r??r, from Proto-Indo-European *h?reh?- (“to put in order”)) + -cinor, modelled after v?ticinor (“to foretell, prophesy”), equivalent to ratiocinate +? -ion.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æt???s??ne??n?/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?æti??si?ne??n?/, /?æ?i-/
- Hyphenation: ra?ti?o?ci?na?tion
Noun
ratiocination (usually uncountable, plural ratiocinations)
- 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.
Synonyms
- reasoning
Related terms
- ratiocinate
- ratiocinative
- ratiocinatively
- ratiocinator
- ratiocinatory
Translations
See also
- logic
- syllogism
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “ratiocination”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Further reading
- reason on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- ratiocination in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- ratiocination in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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discursus
English
Etymology
Latin. Doublet of discourse.
Noun
discursus (plural discursuses)
- (logic) argumentation; ratiocination; discursive reasoning
Latin
Etymology
From discurr?.
Noun
discursus m (genitive discurs?s); fourth declension
- running about (or to and fro)
Declension
Fourth-declension noun.
Related terms
- discurro
Descendants
References
- discursus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- discursus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- discursus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- discursus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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