ra·ti·oc·i·na·tive

(răsh′ē-ŏs′ə-nā′tĭv, -ō-sĭn′ə-)

adj.

Of, relating to, marked by, or skilled in methodical and logical reasoning. See Synonyms at logical.

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Adj.

ratiocinative - based on exact thinking; "one's ratiocinative powers"

logical - capable of or reflecting the capability for correct and valid reasoning; "a logical mind"

ratiocinative

adjective

Able to reason validly:

analytic, analytical, logical, rational.

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Poetry is most compelling to me as "thought-as-feeling" and "feeling-as-thought" but if it becomes too ratiocinative it loses its dramatic urgency.

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A system of logic ratiocinative and inductive: being a connected view of the principles of evidence and the methods of scientific investigation.

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Ratiocinative and Inductive, Longmans, Green and Co., Londres.

CAUSALIDAD Y EMERGENCIA

See Hegel: "The concept needs no external stimulus for its actualization [...] In a merely ratiocinative approach the conclusion certainly appears more or less arbitrary; in philosophical science, by contrast, the concept itself sets a limit to its self-development by giving itself an actuality that completely corresponds to it" (PM 14-5/7); "Therefore limitation is not in [...] mind: it is posited by mind in order to be sublated" (PM 37/23-4).

THE SELF-SUBLATION OF EMPIRICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: DEVELOPING MCDOWELL'S HETERODOX INTERPRETATION OF HEGEL'S LORD/BONDSMAN DIALECTIC

Bertram uses for the sacrament of baptism) (164), this "doubting of doubt" that Sarah, Smythe, and Bendrix experience as the first intellectual step toward conversion is vaguely reminiscent of more ratiocinative conversion-to-Catholicism narratives such as John Henry Newman's influential Apologia Pro Vita Sua (1865), Robert Hugh Benson's Confessions of a Convert (1907), and Ronald Knox's A Spiritual Aeneid (1918).

THE END OF THE AFFAIR: A MODERNIST CONVERSION NARRATIVE

These two methods may be respectively denominated the Method of Agreement and the Method of Difference (John Stuart Mill, System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive, People's Edition, Londres, Longmans & Geen, 1893 a la p 253).

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Mill and John, A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive, 1843.

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A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation (Eighth Edition).

Emile Coue and his method (II): hypnotism, suggestion, ego-strengthening, and autosuggestion