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Reasoning

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Rational 84% connected

Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.

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Rational 84% connected

Relating to the reason; not physical; mental.

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Analysis 76% connected

A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the compo…

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Anticipation 76% connected

The act of anticipating, taking up, placing, or considering something beforehand, or before the proper time in natural order.

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Argument 76% connected

Proof; evidence.

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Argumentation 76% connected

The act of forming reasons, making inductions, drawing conclusions, and applying them to the case in discussion; the operation of inferring propositi…

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Conjecture 76% connected

An opinion, or judgment, formed on defective or presumptive evidence; probable inference; surmise; guess; suspicion.

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Deduction 76% connected

Act or process of deducing or inferring.

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Illation 76% connected

The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons; perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred; inference; deduction; c…

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Inference 76% connected

The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.

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Line 76% connected

Flax; linen.

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Prediction 76% connected

The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.

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Prevision 76% connected

Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience.

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Ratiocination 76% connected

The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.

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Regress 76% connected

The act of passing back; passage back; return; retrogression. "The progress or regress of man".

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Synthesis 76% connected

Composition, or the putting of two or more things together, as in compounding medicines.

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Cerebration 76% connected

Action of the brain, whether conscious or unconscious.

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Intellection 76% connected

A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itsel…

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Thinking 76% connected

of Think

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Thought 76% connected

of Think

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Intelligent 92% connected

Endowed with the faculty of understanding or reason; as, man is an intelligent being.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Thinking 92% connected

of Think

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

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