Ratiocinate: alternatives and connections

Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which infers effec…

To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege.

To bring to view or notice; to offer or propose; to show; as, to advance an argument.

To invent and offer reasons to support or overthrow a proposition, opinion, or measure; to use arguments; to reason.

A reason or reasons offered in proof, to induce belief, or convince the mind; reasoning expressed in words; as, an argument about, con…

An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, ac…

The sovereignty of reason in the sphere of morals; or man's power, as possessed of reason, to give law to himself. In this, according…

To make an offer of; to propose. Specifically : To offer to pay ( a certain price, as for a thing put up at auction), or to take (a ce…

A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; infer…

A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion or strife; a position…

Unwilling to hear or listen; determinedly inattentive; regardless; not to be persuaded as to facts, argument, or exhortation; -- with…

The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exe…

To contend in argument; to argue against something maintained, upheld, or claimed, by another; to discuss; to reason; to debate; to al…

To draw out or entice forth; to bring to light; to bring out against the will; to deduce by reason or argument; as, to elicit truth by…

Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility;…

Because; by reason that; for that; indicating, in Old English, the reason of anything.

To comprehend or comprise, as a genus the species, the whole a part, an argument or reason the inference; to contain; to embrace; as,…

To bring forward, or employ as an argument; to adduce; to allege; to offer.