Synonyms for Reasoning
ˈri zə nɪŋ, ˈriz nɪŋrea·son·ing

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1. reasoningnoun

   Synonyms:
   rationale

2. reasoningnoun

   Action of the verb to reason.

   Synonyms:
   ratiocination, rationale

3. reasoningnoun

   The deduction of inferences or interpretations from premises; abstract thought; ratiocination.

   Synonyms:
   ratiocination, rationale

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1. reasoning

   Argumentation and debate, in the ordinary use of the words, suppose two parties alleging reasons for and against a proposition; the same idea appears figuratively when we speak of a debate or an argument with oneself, or of a debate between reason and conscience. Reasoning may be the act of one alone, as it is simply the orderly setting forth of reasons, whether for the instruction of inquirers, the confuting of opponents, or the clear establishment of truth for oneself. Reasoning may be either deductive or inductive. Argument or argumentation was formerly used of deductive reasoning only. With the rise of the inductive philosophy these words have come to be applied to inductive processes also; but while reasoning may be informal or even (as far as tracing its processes is concerned) unconscious, argument and argumentation strictly imply logical form. Reasoning, as denoting a process, is a broader term than reason or argument; many arguments or reasons may be included in a single chain of reasoning.

   Synonyms:
   argument, argumentation, debate, ratiocination

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1. reasoning, logical thinking, abstract thoughtadjective

   thinking that is coherent and logical

   Synonyms:
   logical thinking, abstract thought, reasoning

   Antonyms:
   irrational

2. intelligent, reasoning(a), thinking(a)adjective

   endowed with the capacity to reason

   Antonyms:
   irrational

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1. reasoningnoun

   Synonyms:
   ratiocination, argumentation

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1. reasoningnoun

   Synonyms:
   ratiocination, argumentation, syllogism, discursus, (sophistical or false) sophistry, fallacy, casuistry

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1. List of paraphrases for "reasoning":

   rationale, argument, logic, thinking, motivation, argumentation

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1. Armen Sargsyan:

   Nikol Pashinyan was right. I was wrong, the situation has several solutions, but I will not take any of them. That is not mine. I am leaving office of the country's leader, of Prime Minister. The street movement is against my tenure. I am fulfilling your demand. Peace, harmony and reasoning for our country.

2. National Security Adviser Susan Rice:

   We reject reductive reasoning and lazy rhetoric that says conflict between the U.S. and China is inevitable even as we've been tough with China where we disagree, this isn't a zero sum game.

3. Former CIA director David Petraeus:

   The reasoning seems to be to show in the most significant way possible that the US is just not going to allow the continued violence—the rocketing of our bases, the killing of an American contractor, the attacks on shipping, on unarmed drones—without a very significant response.

4. Joseph Addison:

   Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

5. Alexis Carrel:

   All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.