Holmes used brain fatiguing processes of ratiocination.
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Ratiocination
//ɹætɪˌɒsɪˈneɪʃn̩//
Synonyms for "ratiocination" (57 found)
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10 translations across 10 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- разсъждение noun (activity or process of reasoning)
Catalan
1 entries- raciocinació noun (activity or process of reasoning)
Dutch
1 entries- redenering noun (activity or process of reasoning)
Finnish
1 entries- järkeily noun (activity or process of reasoning)
French
1 entries- raisonnement noun (activity or process of reasoning)
Galician
1 entries- raciocinio noun (activity or process of reasoning)
Latin
1 entries- ratiōcinātiō noun (activity or process of reasoning)
Portuguese
1 entries- raciocínio noun (activity or process of reasoning)
Russian
1 entries- логи́ческое рассужде́ние noun (activity or process of reasoning)
Spanish
1 entries- raciocinación noun (activity or process of reasoning)
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It has been said that the principal utility of abstraction is as an instrument in ratiocination.
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But it will be apparent from the refutation of the ſecond Falſification, wherewith you charge the Author of the Letters, that theſe miſchievous conſequences are rightly drawn from the wicked principle layd down by Vaſquez [Gabriel Vásquez] in the ſame place, and accordingly, that that Jeſuit hath not done violence to the rules of ratiocination, but to thoſe of the Goſpel.
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He'd run in Debt by Diſputation, / And pay with Ratiocination. / All this by Syllogiſm, true / In Mood and Figure, he wou'd do.
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