ratiocinative
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His actual knowledge, however, had remained mere wretched patchwork, his logic came to an end wherever bold reliance upon the intuitive process was needed to supply missing links in the ratiocinative chain.
From The Indian Lily and Other Stories by Lewisohn, Ludwig
Still, he tried to explain the problem, for he was of an eminently ratiocinative temper.
From The Aspirations of Jean Servien by France, Anatole
The faculty of computing is among the very last of the psychical habitudes acquired by man, and is an evidence of high ratiocinative ability.
From The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals by Weir, James
In the childhood of those sciences the imagination opened a way, and furnished materials, on which the ratiocinative powers in a maturer state operated with success.
From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
And the "opinionative" and "ratiocinative" part is more limited than the lower reason; for it regards only things contingent.
From Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint
