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Definition of Reasoning
Reasoning

of Reason

The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons.

That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument.

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Reasoning Quotations

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.
Albert Einstein

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
Ayn Rand

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
Blaise Pascal

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
Robert A. Heinlein

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke

Reasoning Translations

reasoning in French is raisonnant
reasoning in Italian is pensare
reasoning in Spanish is razonamiento


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