different between ratiocination vs ratiocinative

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)

1. Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.
2. Thought or reasoning that is exact, valid and rational.
3. 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.

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æ?.???s.??ne?.t?v/
• (UK)

Adjective

ratiocinative (comparative more ratiocinative, superlative most ratiocinative)

1. Pertaining to or characterized by ratiocination, discursive thinking, or inferential knowledge.
   • 1888, H.P. Blavatsky,The Secret Doctrine, Vol I, Theosophical University Press, page 1:

     Only those who realise how far Intuition soars above the tardy processes of ratiocinative thought can form the faintest conception […]

   • 1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 80:

     […] bloodthirsty interest in the ratiocinative faculty […]

Related terms

• ratiocinate
• ratiocination

Translations

French

Adjective

ratiocinative

1. feminine singular of ratiocinatif

Latin

Adjective

rati?cin?t?ve

1. vocative masculine singular of rati?cin?t?vus