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‘Ratiocination’ (pub. 03.02.13-08:51). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-short-logic-4.
Term: 
Ratiocination
Quote: 

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 belief, without our seeming to see clearly why or how. Such a process is usually called an inference; but it ought not to be called a rational inference, or reasoning. A blind force constrains us. [—]

The word illation signifies a process of inference. Reasoning, in general, is sometimes called ratiocination. Argumentation is the expression of a reasoning.

Source: 
Peirce, C. S. (1895). Short Logic: Chapter I. Of Reasoning in General. MS [R] 595.
References: 
EP 2:11-12
Date of Quote: 
1895
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