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judgments; Much of our reasoning is an abbreviated form of the syllogism,
and will readily expand into it. — The Mind and Its Education;
• (ratiocination)- the process of logical reasoning, (
); She arrived at this by pure ratiocination-
-it's not a question of feeling, you understand. — The Descent of Man and Other
Stories;
• (rationale)- the fundamental reason or reasons serving to account for
something, ( ; ; ); The problem challenges
students to articulate a rationale for ethical decision-making in foreign policy;
• (rationalize)- to ascribe (one's acts, opinions, etc.) to causes that
superficially seem reasonable and valid but that actually are unrelated to
the true, possibly unconscious and often less creditable or agreeable
causes, ( ; );
It does not completely rationalize or even completely describe such
experiences, but formulates their succession. — The Approach to Philosophy;
sophistry : incoherent^ cohere > cohesion
• (sophistry)- a subtle, tricky, superficially plausible, but generally fallacious
method of reasoning, ( ); Their purpose is to
avenge truth against sophistry, and to do combat for an ideal which is not
always prominently put forward. — Aesthetical Essays of Frederich Schiller;
• (inchoate) - a person who reasons adroitly and speciously rather than
soundly, ( ; ); It is on
my conscience to add, moreover, that I find you a sophist, and your sophistry
a little vulgar. — A Daughter of To-Day;
• (cohere)- without logical or meaningful connection; disjointed; rambling,
( , ); They look more dead than alive; their movements are
slow, incoherent, and incomprehensible. — The Life of the Bee;
• (cohesion)- to stick together; be united; hold fast, as parts of the same
mass, ( ; ); The various elements do not
fully cohere, in my view, because the writer and director have a misplaced
sense of where the real drama or comedy lies;
substantiate ~ buttress = bolster = support = corroborate = patronize > patron
• (substantiate)- to establish by proof or competent evidence, ( , ,
, / ); Their
benefactor had conveyed provision for their sustenance, and clothing for
their wives and families. — Lady Rosamond's Secret A Romance of Fredericton;
• (buttress)- any external prop or support built to steady a structure by
opposing its outward thrusts, esp. a projecting support built into or against