Ratiocination
Keyword: Ratiocination
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013 Quote from "Grand Logic 1893: Division III. Substantial Study of Logic Chapter VI. The Essence of Reasoning" St. Thomas Aquinas [Summa totius logicæ Aristotelis (Opusculum 48)] divides the operations of the Understanding in reference to the logical character of their products into... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013 Quote from "Grand Logic 1893: Division III. Substantial Study of Logic Chapter VI. The Essence of Reasoning" Ratiocination is defined by St. Thomas as the operation by which reason proceeds from the known to the unknown. |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013 Quote from "An Essay toward Improving Our Reasoning in Security and in Uberty" Reasoning-power; or Ratiocination, called by some Dianoetic Reason, is the power of drawing inferences that tend toward the truth, when their... |
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Dictionary Entry | Posted 03/02/2013 Quote from "Short Logic" Reasoning is the process by which we attain a belief which we regard as the result of previous knowledge. [—] Again, a given belief may be regarded as the effect of another given... |