ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

discussion, comment; ventilation; inquiry &c 461.
argumentation, controversy, debate; polemics, wrangling; contention &c 720;
logomachy † ; disputation, disceptation † ; paper war.
art of reasoning, logic.
process of reasoning, train of reasoning, chain of reasoning; deduction, induction,
abduction; synthesis, analysis.
argument; case, plaidoyer † , opening; lemma, proposition, terms, premises, postulate,
data, starting point, principle; inference &c (judgment) 480.
prosyllogism † , syllogism; enthymeme † , sorites † , dilemma, perilepsis † , a priori
reasoning, reductio ad absurdum, horns of a dilemma, argumentum ad hominem [Lat.],
comprehensive argument; empirema † , epagoge † .
[person who reasons] reasoner, logician, dialectician; disputant; controversialist,
controvertist † ; wrangler, arguer, debater polemic, casuist, rationalist; scientist; eristic † .
logical sequence; good case; correct just reasoning, sound reasoning, valid reasoning,
cogent reasoning, logical reasoning, forcible reasoning, persuasive reasoning, persuasory
reasoning † , consectary reasoning † , conclusive &c 478; subtle reasoning; force of
argument, strong point, strong argument, persuasive argument.
arguments, reasons, pros and cons.
V. reason, argue, discuss, debate, dispute, wrangle † , argufy † , bandy words, bandy
arguments; chop logic; hold an argument, carry on an argument; controvert &c (deny)
536; canvass; comment upon, moralize upon; spiritualize; consider &c (examine) 461.
open a discussion, open a case; try conclusions; join issue, be at issue; moot; come to
the point; stir a question, agitate a question, ventilate a question, torture a question; take
up a side, take up a case.
contend, take one's stand upon, insist, lay stress on; infer &c 480.
follow from &c (demonstration) 478.
Adj. reasoning &c v.; rationalistic; argumentative, controversial, dialectic, polemical;
discursory † , discursive; disputatious; Aristotelian † , eristic † , eristical † .
debatable, controvertible.
logical; relevant &c 23.
Adv. for, because, hence, whence, seeing that, since, sith † , then thence so; for that reason,
for this reason, for which reason; for as, inasmuch as; whereas, ex concesso [Lat.],
considering, in consideration of; therefore, wherefore; consequently, ergo, thus,
accordingly; a fortiori.
in conclusion, in fine; finally, after all, au bout du compt [Fr.], on the whole, taking
one thing with another.
Phr. ab actu ad posse valet consecutio [Lat.]; per troppo dibatter la verita si perde [It];
troppo disputare la verita fa errare [It].
477. Intuition. & Sophistry [The absence of reasoning.] [False or vicious reasoning;
show of reason.] -- N. intuition, instinct, association, hunch, gut feeling; presentiment,
premonition; rule of thumb; superstition; astrology † ; faith (supposition) 514.
sophistry, paralogy † , perversion, casuistry, jesuitry, equivocation, evasion; chicane,
chicanery; quiddet † , quiddity; mystification; special pleading; speciousness &c adj.;
nonsense &c 497; word sense, tongue sense.