Reasoning

Definitions: Reasoning

Reasoning

Adjective

1. Endowed with the capacity to reason.

Noun

1. Thinking that is coherent and logical.

Date "reasoning" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Reasoning

Synonyms: intelligent (adj), reasoning(a) (adj), thinking(a) (adj), abstract thought (n), logical thinking (n). (additional references)

Reasoning is the act of using reason to derive a conclusion from certain premises. In general, a distinction is made between reasoning from the general to the particular (called deductive reasoning) and reasoning from the particular to the general (called inductive reasoning). Both types of reasoning are of interest to such disciplines as philosophy, psychology, and artificial intelligence.

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Information	Pick apart an argument, confutation; reasoning.
Intellect	Noun: intellect, mind, understanding, reason, thinking principle; rationality; cogitative faculties, cognitive faculties, discursive faculties, reasoning faculties, intellectual faculties; faculties, senses, consciousness, observation, percipience, intelligence, intellection, intuition, association of ideas, instinct, conception, judgment, wits, parts, capacity, intellectuality, genius; brains, cognitive powers, intellectual powers; wit; ability; (skill); wisdom; Vernunft, Verstand.
Reasoning,	Prosyllogism, syllogism; enthymeme, sorites, dilemma, perilepsis, a priori reasoning, reductio ad absurdum, horns of a dilemma, argumentum ad hominem, comprehensive argument; empirema, epagoge.
	Process of reasoning, train of reasoning, chain of reasoning; deduction, induction, abduction; synthesis, analysis.
	Noun: {ant. } reasoning ratiocination rationalism; dialectics, induction, generalization.
	Logical sequence; good case; correct just reasoning, sound reasoning, valid reasoning, cogent reasoning, logical reasoning, forcible reasoning, persuasive reasoning, persuasory reasoning, consectary reasoning, conclusive; ; subtle reasoning; force of argument, strong point, strong argument, persuasive argument.
	False reasoning, vicious reasoning, circular reasoning; petitio principii, ignoratio elenchi; post hoc ergo propter hoc; non sequitur, ignotum per ignotius.
	Art of reasoning, logic.
	Adjective: reasoning; Verb: rationalistic; argumentative, controversial, dialectic, polemical; discursory, discursive; disputatious; Aristotelian, eristic, eristical.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain

Usage

Screenplays

I tried talking to him, I gave him advice, I tried reasoning with him, there's only one thing left to do: Sit back and laugh my ass off! (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

But then you'd have to live the rest of your life in fear, always looking over your shoulder, waiting forthat day. You try reasoning with him? Oh, a moron, eh? Well Arnold, I wish I knew what to tell you. In eighty years I think I've only learned one thing for sure. (Hey Arnold!; writing credit: Lu�s Filipe Rocha)

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Domain	Title
Books	The Power of Logical Thinking: Easy Lessons in the Art of Reasoning...and Hard Facts About Its Absence in Our Lives (reference) Acf 92: Fundamentals of Math and Quantative Reasoning (reference) Rohlf Intro to Economic Reasoning 3/E 1996 and Miller Economics Today Internet ACT 9/E 1997 Adhoc Bu (reference) Planning and Learning by Analogical Reasoning (reference) Similarity and Analogical Reasoning (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	International Journal Of Approximate Reasoning (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	SAT I: Mathematical Reasoning - Quantitative Comparisons (reference) SAT I: Verbal Reasoning - Sentence Completions (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Reasoning (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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	Man reasoning with Indians about to burn a bound captive.Credit: Library of Congress.
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Author	Quotation
Antoine Rivarol	Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
Catharine Esther Beecher	As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.
Edmund Burke	No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Jeremy Collier	True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.
Johann Kaspar Lavater	He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.
Plato	I have hardly ever known a mathamatician who was capable of reasoning.
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
Roger Bacon	Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.
Thomas More	For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Marbury v. Madison	1803	The conclusion from this reasoning is, that where the heads of departments are the political or confidential agents of the executive, merely to execute the will of the President, or rather to act in cases in which the executive possesses a constitutional or legal discretion, nothing can be more perfectly clear than that their acts are only politically examinable. (reference)
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Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Gleams of the true came at every instant to complete his reasoning.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	From this way of reasoning the author drew several moral applications useful in the conduct of life, but needless here to repeat.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Confusion or difficulty reasoning. (references)
		Cerebral cortex -- the part of the brain most involved in learning, language, and reasoning. (references)
		AD later attacks the cerebral cortex, particularly the areas responsible for language and reasoning. (references)
Economic History	Albania	Traditionally, Albanians have viewed advertising with suspicion, reasoning that a company that advertises has problems selling its products. (references)
	Romania	Social considerations prevailing over economic reasoning, the government granted debt rescheduling or forgiveness to highly indebted state companies (such as the National Tobacco Company). (references)
	Venezuela	There was a record 65% increase in telecommunications equipment sales between 1999 and 2000 with a 7% projected increase for 2001. The reasoning behind the substantial '99-'00 increase is that companies were quickly building out their systems in anticipation of the upcoming "opening" of the sector. (references)
Human Rights	China	An appeals judge could then review a verdict and levy fines against judges making decisions based on faulty legal reasoning. (references)
	China	To promote transparency, Shenzhen courts instituted a pilot program requiring judges to write out the reasoning behind their verdicts. (references)
	Turkey	In January the Constitutional Court published the detailed reasoning of its decision in the Official Gazette and gave Parliament 12 months to replace the provision. (references)
Minorities	Austria	In December the Constitutional Court ruled that the standard should be only 10 percent; the Court cited international and historical precedence as its reasoning. (references)
Women	Egypt	In 2000 the Supreme Constitutional Court ruled that married women should not require permission from their husbands, reasoning that the practice violated the principle of equality of the sexes. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	LOGIC, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion -- thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds; therefore -- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. This may be called the syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.
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"Reasoning" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.87% of the time. "Reasoning" is used about 840 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	92.87%	780	8,863
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	7.13%	60	43,597
Total	100.00%	840	N/A

Expressions using "reasoning": art of reasoning ♦ backward reasoning ♦ by parity of reasoning ♦ case based reasoning ♦ close reasoning ♦ deductive reasoning ♦ default reasoning ♦ follow the reasoning ♦ formal reasoning ♦ forward reasoning ♦ fuzzy reasoning ♦ geometric reasoning ♦ goal directed reasoning ♦ hypothetical reasoning ♦ inductive reasoning ♦ informal reasoning ♦ line of reasoning ♦ nonmonotonic reasoning ♦ plausible reasoning ♦ probabilistic reasoning ♦ reasoning backward ♦ reasoning by elimination ♦ reasoning forward ♦ reasoning strategy ♦ sound reasoning ♦ spatial reasoning ♦ symbolic reasoning ♦ temporal reasoning ♦ uncertain reasoning ♦ without reasoning. Additional references.

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Language		Translations for "reasoning"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		rede (account, cause, logical, logical reasoning, reason). (various references)

Albanian		shpjegim (commentary, elucidation, exegesis, exegetics, explanation, explication, exposition, gloss, interpretation, reading, Rede), provë (assay, audition, averment, demonstration, evidence, experiment, fact, fitting, flier, prill, probation, prolusion, proof, rehearsal, run through, rush, school, seal, sign, substantiation, taste, tasting, test, touch, trial, try, try on, try out, witness), i arsyeshëm (legitimate, level headed, logical, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible), i arësyeshëm (legitimate, level headed, logical, rational, reasonable, sane, sensible), gjykim (arbitrament, arbitration, consideration, doom, estimation, eye, impeachment, judgement, judgment, trial, verdict), arsyetim (argumentation, descant, intellection, logic, rationality, rationalization, recollection, Rede, speculation, understanding), argumentim (argumentation, grounding). (various references)

Arabic		‏منطق (logic, rationalize, reason), ‏حجة (allegation, argument, case, document, excuse, instrument, plea, pretence, pretension, pretext, proofing), ‏تفكير (cogitation, reflection, reflexion, reminding, thinking, thought), ‏إستنتاج (conclusion, deduction, derivation, illation, inference), ‏برهان (argument, attestation, confirmation, evidence, proof, proofing, substantiation, testimonial, testimony, warranty). (various references)

Bulgarian		разсъждаване, разсъдлив (cautious, circumspect, discerning, judicial, prudent), мислещ (intellectual, thinking), аргументи, причини, доводи. (various references)

Chinese		推理 (speculative). (various references)

Czech		uvažování (cogitation, deliberation, ponderability, thinking), usuzování (logic), úvaha (account, consideration, deliberation, reflection, thought). (various references)

Danish		fornuft (intellect, logical reasoning, mind, reason). (various references)

Dutch		ruimtelijk denken (spatial reasoning), redeneerstrategie (reasoning strategy), redeneren met onzekerheden (uncertain reasoning), redeneren op basis van meetgegevens (evidential reasoning), redenering bij verstek (default reasoning), rede (address, anchorage, logical reasoning, moorage, mooring, reason, speech), informele redenering (informal reasoning, natural deduction, nonresolution theorem proving), inexact redeneren (uncertain reasoning), hypothetisch redeneren (hypothetical reasoning), natuurlijke deductie (informal reasoning, natural deduction, nonresolution theorem proving), geometrisch redeneren (geometric reasoning), formeel redeneren (formal reasoning), exact redeneren (categorial reasoning), doel-gericht zoeken (backchaining, backward chaining, backward reasoning, goal directed reasoning, goal-directed searching, reasoning backward), data-gericht zoeken (data-directed searching, forward chaining, forward reasoning, reasoning forward), bezonnenheidswaan (reasoning insanity, reasoning mania), besturingsstructuur (control strategy, control structure, reasoning strategy), backtracking (backtracking, depth-first backward reasoning), achterwaarts redeneren (backchaining, backward chaining, backward reasoning, goal directed reasoning, goal-directed searching, reasoning backward), gezond-verstand redeneren (common sense reasoning, commonsense reasoning), nonmonotoon redeneren (nonmonotonic reasoning), achterwaarts ketenen (backchaining, backward chaining, backward reasoning, goal directed reasoning, goal-directed searching, reasoning backward), plausible reasoning (plausible reasoning), zoeken in de diepte met achterwaarts redeneren (backtracking, depth-first backward reasoning), spatieel denken (spatial reasoning), symbolisch redeneren (symbolic reasoning), tegennatuurlijke redenering (counterfactual reasoning), terugredeneren (backchaining, backward chaining, backward reasoning, goal directed reasoning, goal-directed searching, reasoning backward), tijdafhankelijk redeneren (temporal reasoning, time-dependent reasoning), vaag redeneren (fuzzy reasoning), verstand (intellect, knowledge, logical reasoning, mind, notion, realization, reason, sense, understanding), voorwaarts ketenen (data-directed searching, forward chaining, forward reasoning, reasoning forward), voorwaarts redeneren (data-directed searching, forward chaining, forward reasoning, reasoning forward), waarschijnlijkheidsrekening (probabilistic reasoning), plausibel redeneren (fuzzy reasoning). (various references)

Esperanto		racio (logical reasoning, reason). (various references)

Farsi		استدلال (Logic, Ratiocination, Thought), دلیل وبرهان . (various references)

Finnish		muodollinen päättely (formal reasoning), arkipäättely (common sense reasoning, commonsense reasoning), ei-kielellinen päättely (non verbal reasoning), ei-monotoninen päättely (nonmonotonic reasoning), epävarma päättely (uncertain reasoning), eteenpäin ketjutus (data-directed searching, forward chaining, forward reasoning, reasoning forward), geometrinen päättely (geometric reasoning), hypoteettinen päättely (hypothetical reasoning), järki (logical reasoning, reason, sense, understanding), kategorinen päättely (categorial reasoning), kielellinen päättely (verbal reasoning), ajasta riippuva päättely (temporal reasoning, time-dependent reasoning), luonnollinen päättely (informal reasoning, natural deduction, nonresolution theorem proving), tosiasioiden vastainen päättely (counterfactual reasoning), näyttöön pohjautuva todistelu (evidential reasoning), ohjausrakenne (control strategy, control structure, diversion structure, diversion work, headworks, reasoning strategy), oletuspäättely (default reasoning), päättelystrategia (reasoning strategy), peräytyminen (backing, backtracking, depth-first backward reasoning), sumea päättely (fuzzy reasoning), symbolinen päättely (symbolic reasoning), taaksepäin ketjutus (backchaining, backward chaining, backward reasoning, goal directed reasoning, goal-directed searching, reasoning backward), tila-ajattelu (spatial reasoning), tilapäättely (spatial reasoning), todennäköisyyteen perustuva päättely (probabilistic reasoning), luokitteluun pohjautuva todistelu (categorial reasoning). (various references)

French		raisonnement, réflexion (reflection, reflexion). (various references)

German		Denken (believe, conceive, conceive of, expect, feel, mind, reckon, speculate, suppose, think, thinking, thought, thoughts, to think), argumentierend (arguing), überlegend (cogitating, deliberating). (various references)

Greek		συλλογισμόσ (cogitation, pensiveness, ratiocination, rumination, syllogism, thoughtfulness), λογική (logic, rationale, rationality, sanity), αιτιολογία (aetiology, causality, etiology, explanation, justification, narrative, rationale, reason). (various references)

Hebrew		שקול �"עת (deliberation, discretion), �"� מק�" (argumentation), טעון (argument, burdening, fraught, laden, loaded, needing, pleading, requiring, shearling), � מוק (argument, ground, reason). (various references)

Hungarian		érvelés (argument, argumentation). (various references)

Indonesian		pertimbangan (advisement), penalaran (intellectual activity). (various references)

Italian		ragionamento (argument, thinking, train of thought), argomentazione (argumentation). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		諭旨 (explanation). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		すいり (inference, irrigation, mystery or detective genre, water supply, water transportation), ぶ�"り (context, crisis, detachment, isolation, literature and science, segregation, separation), りづめ (logic), りろ (argument, logic), ろ�"ぽう (logic, tone or force of an argument), ゆし (explanation, fat, fats and oils, instruction, official suggestion, oil paper, oiled paper). (various references)

Korean		�"� . (various references)

Manx		resooney (argue, argument, debate, deduction, dialectic, dialectics, reason, remonstrate), resoonaghey (argue, rationalisation, rationalize, reason). (various references)

Pig Latin		easoningray

Portuguese		raciocínio (argument, discourse, head, induction, logic, rationality), que raciocina, dotado de razão, dissertação (discourse, disserve, essay, excursus, theme, thesis, tractate, treatise), discurso (address, discourse, oration, peroxide, speech, valedictory, word), conversação (conversation, talk), conversa (causerie, chat, chitchat, consultation, conversation, converse, discourse, gab, gabble, slipslop, talk, trifling). (various references)

Romanian		raţionare (rationing), raţionament (argument, ratiocination, rationality), discuţie (altercation, argument, argumentation, canvass, confabulation, conversation, counsel, debate, dialogue, discourse, discussion, dispute, quarrel, row, splutter, talk), argumentare (argumentation, ratiocination). (various references)

Russian		рассуждения, размышление (cogitation, meditation, reflection, reflexion, self-communion, speculation, thinking), мыслящий (cogitative, intellectual, reflective), аргументация (argumentation), логический ход мысли. (various references)

Scottish		tagradh (claiming, ghost, pleading), deasbaireachd (debating, wrangling). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		razuman (intellectual, intelligible, judicious, knowing, level headed, levelheaded, lucid, reasonable, reasonably, reasoned, right-minded, sane, sensible), rasuđivanje (judgement, judgment). (various references)

Spanish		razonamiento (argument, argumentation). (various references)

Swedish		tankegång, resonemang (argument). (various references)

Turkish		usavurma, tümevarım (induction), nedenler, muhakeme (discernment, judgement), mantıklı düşünme, mantık (logic, rationale, rationality, reason), kanıtlar, düşünce (apprehension, attitude, belief, cogitation, conceit, consideration, counsel, fancy, idea, ideo-, judgement, mind, opinion, remark, say so, sense, sentiments, thinking, thought, voice). (various references)

Ukranian		обгрунтування (discourse, foundation, grounding), мислячий (cogitative, intellective, intellectual, reflective, thinking), аргументація (argument, argumentation, case). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự cãi lý, lập luận (looseness), lý luận (theory), lý lẽ sự tranh luận, có lý trí (rational), biết suy luận. (various references)

Welsh		ymresymiad (argument). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	rationabilem. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Luke Chapter 9, Verse 47
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	O de ihsouV idwn ton dialogismon thV kardiaV autwn epilabomenoV paidiou esthsen auto par eautw
Latin	405	Vulgate	At Iesus videns cogitationes cordis illorum adprehendens puerum statuit eum secus se
Old English	990	West Saxon	þa se hælend geseh hyra heortan geþancas he gesette þæne cnapan wiþ hine
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And Jhesu, seynge the thouytis of the herte of hem, took a child, and settide hym bisidis hym;
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	When Iesus perceaved ye thoughtes of their hertes he toke a chylde and set him hard by him
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And Jesus, perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And Jesus perceiving the thought of their heart, took a child, and set him by him,
Basic English	1964	Ogden	But when Jesus saw the reasoning of their hearts, he took a small child and put him by his side,
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Luke Chapter 9, Verse 47
Bulgarian	А Исус, като видя мисълта на сърцето им, взе едно детенце, постави го при Себе Си, и рече им:
Cebuano	Apan sa pagkasabut ni Jesus sa ilang gilalisan nga diha sa ilang mga kasingkasing, iyang gikuha ang usa ka gamayng bata ug iyang gipatupad kini kaniya,
Chinese	耶穌看出他們心中的議論、就 � � 一個小孩子來、叫他站在自己旁邊、
Croatian	Znajuæi tu misao njihova srca, uzme Isus dijete, postavi ga uza se
Danish	Men da Jesus så deres Hjertes Tanke, tog, han et Barn og stillede det hos sig.
Dutch	Maar Jezus, ziende de overlegging hunner harten, nam een kindeken, en stelde dat bij Zich;
Finnish	Mutta kun Jeesus tiesi heidän sydämensä ajatuksen, otti hän lapsen ja asetti sen viereensä
French	Jésus, voyant la pensée de leur coeur, prit un petit enfant, le plaça près de lui,
German	Da aber Jesus den Gedanken ihres Herzens sah, ergriff er ein Kind und stellte es neben sich
Haitian Creole	Jezi vin konnen lide ki te nan tèt yo: li pran yon timoun piti li mete l' bò kote li.
Hungarian	Jézus pedig látván az õ szívök gondolatát, egy kis gyermeket megfogván, maga mellé állatá azt,
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Yesus tahu pikiran mereka, sebab itu Ia mengambil seorang anak kecil dan membuat anak itu berdiri di samping-Nya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Tetapi sedang Yesus mengetahui akan pikiran hatinya itu, lalu diambil-Nya seorang kanak-kanak, didirikan-Nya di sisi-Nya,
Italian	Allora Gesù, conoscendo il pensiero del loro cuore, prese un fanciullo, se lo mise vicino e disse:
Korean	예 수 께 서 그 마 음 에 변 � 하 �" 것 을 아 시 � 어 린 아 이 하 나 를 데 � � 다 가 자 기 곁 에 세 우 시 �
Latvian	Un Jçzus, redzçdams viòu sirds domas, paòçmis bçrnu, novietoja to sev blakus,
Manx Gaelic	As Yeesey toiggal smooinaghtyn y chree oc, ghow eh lhiannoo, as hoie eh eh liorish,
Maori	Otira, i te kitenga o Ihu i e whakaaroaronga a o ratou ngakau, ka mau ia ki tetahi tamaiti nohinohi, a whakaturia ana ki tona taha,
Modern Greek	Ο δε Ιησους, ιδων τον διαλογισμον της καρδιας αυτων, επιασε παιδιον και εστησεν αυτο πλησιον εαυτου
Norwegian	Men da Jesus så deres hjertes tanke, tok han et lite barn og stilte det ved siden av sig
Portuguese	Mas Jesus, percebendo o pensamento de seus corações, tomou uma criança, pô-la junto de si,
Rumanian	Isus le -a cunoscut gkndul inimii, a luat un copilaw, l -a pus lkngq El,
Russian	йЙУХУ ЦЕ, ЧЙ�"С � ПНЩЫМЕОЙЕ УЕТ�"�"Б ЙИ, ЧЪСЧ �"ЙФС, � ПУФБЧЙМ ЕЗП � ТЕ�" уП�'ПА
Shuar	Tura ni Enentáimsamurin Jesus nekaamiayi. Tuma asa uchin achik ni pujamunam itiamiayi.
Spanish	Pero Jesús, percibiendo los razonamientos de sus corazones, tomó a un niño y lo puso a su lado,
Swahili	Yesu aliyajua mawazo yaliyokuwa mioyoni mwao; basi akamchukua mtoto mdogo akamweka karibu naye,
Swedish	Men Jesus förstod deras hjärtans tankar och tog ett barn och ställde det bredvid sig
Thai	ฝ่ายพระเยซูทรงหยั่งรู้ความคิ�"ในใจของเขา จึงให้เ�"็กคนหนึ่งยืนอยู่ใกล้พระองค์
Ukrainian	А Ісус, думку серця їх знавши, узяв дитину, і поставив її біля Себе.
Uma	Na'inca Yesus napa to hi rala nono-ra. Toe pai' na'ala' hadua ana' to kedi' napopokore hi ncori-na,
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "reasoning": reasonings. (additional references)
	Words ending with "reasoning": unreasoning. (additional references)
	Words containing "reasoning": unreasoningly. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Reasoning" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: raisanen, reasonant, reasonings, reasonning, Resonying. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "reasoning" (pronounced rē"zuning)
6	-ē" z u n i ng	seasoning.
5	-z u n i ng	imprisoning, poisoning.
4	-u n i ng	abandoning, apportioning, auctioning, auditioning, awakening, bargaining, battening, beckoning, blackening, bludgeoning, brightening, broadening, burdening, burgeoning, captioning, cautioning, championing, cheapening, christening, coarsening, commissioning, conditioning, cushioning, dampening, darkening, deadening, deafening, decommissioning, deepening, determining, disciplining, disheartening, disillusioning, enlightening, envisioning, examining, fashioning, fastening, fattening, flattening, freshening, frightening, functioning, gardening, glistening, happening, hardening, hastening, heartening, heightening, imagining, jettisoning, leavening, lengthening, lessening, lightening, likening, listening, loosening, maddening, malfunctioning, margining, mentioning, motioning, opening, orphaning, pardoning, partitioning, petitioning, positioning, provisioning, questioning, quickening, rationing, reawakening, reckoning, reconditioning, reexamining, reopening, repositioning, ripening, ruining, saddening, sanctioning, sectioning, sharpening, shortening, sickening, siphoning, slackening, softening, stationing, stiffening, straightening, strengthening, summoning, sweetening, thickening, threatening, tightening, toughening, unquestioning, vacationing, weakening, whitening, widening, worsening.
3	-n i ng	abstaining, adjoining, adjourning, aligning, ascertaining, assigning, attaining, awning, ballooning, banning, beginning, bemoaning, binning, boning, branning, brining, Browning, burning, campaigning, caning, Canning, careening, cartooning, chaining, chaperoning, churning, cleaning, cloning, clowning, cocooning, coining, combining, complaining, concerning, condoning, confining, conning, constraining, containing, convening, Corning, couponing, crooning, crowning, cunning, dawning, declining, defining, demeaning, Denning, designing, detaining, dining, Dinning, discerning, disdaining, divining, donning, Downing, draining, droning, drowning, Dunning, Durning, earning, enjoining, entertaining, evening, explaining, fanning, fawning, feigning, fining, finning, frowning, gaining, ginning, governing, greening, grinning, groaning, gunning, headlining, honing, Horning, housecleaning, impugning, inning, intertwining, intervening, intoning, ironing, jawboning, joining, Kenning, leaning, learning, lightning, lining, loaning, machining, maintaining, Manning, meaning, midmorning, mining, moaning, morning, mourning, obtaining, opining, ordaining, outlining, overrunning, overtraining, overturning, owning, panning, penning, pertaining, phoning, pining, pinning, planning, postponing, preening, preplanning, pruning, quarantining, raining, realigning, reassigning, reclining, redefining, redesigning, redlining, refining, refraining, regaining, reigning, reining, rejoining, relearning, remaining, rerunning, resigning, restraining, retaining, retraining, returning, rezoning, running, scanning, screening, shining, shunning, signing, sinning, spanning, spawning, spinning, spurning, staining, stoning, straining, streamlining, stunning, sunning, sustaining, swooning, tanning, telephoning, thinning, toning, training, tuning, turning, twining, underlining, undermining, underpinning, unreasoning, Vining, waning, warning, weaning, whining, wining, winning, yawning, yearning, zoning.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-o-r-s"
	-1 letter: aginners, anginose, earnings, engrains, grannies, negronis, organise, raisonne.
	-2 letters: aginner, agonies, agonise, earings, earning, engrain, erasing, erasion, eringos, gainers, ginners, grannie, ignores, insaner, insnare, nearing, negroni, nonages, onagers, oranges, origans, reagins, regains, reginas, regions, searing, seringa, signora, signore, snaring, snoring, soaring, sorning.
	-3 letters: agones, angers, anions, argons, ariose, arisen, arseno, arsine, arsino, earing, easing, ensign, eonian, eringo, gainer, genoas, genros, ginner, girons, goners, grains, grison, groans, groins, ignore, inaner, inanes, inners, insane, irones, narine, nasion, nonage, norias, nosier, nosing, oaring, onager, onagri, orange, orangs, organs, orgies, origan, ranges, rasing, reagin, reason, regain, regina, region, reigns, renigs, renins, resign, rosing, sagier, sanger, saning, sarong, senior, senora, sering, sienna, signer, signor, singer, sinner, soigne, soring.
	-4 letters: aegis, aeons, agers, agios, agone, agons, airns, anger, anion, anise, argon, arise, arose, arson, earns, eosin, gains, garni, gears, genoa, genro, girns, giron, giros, gnars, goers, goner, gonia, gores, gorse, grain, grans, grins, groan, groin, inane, inner, irone, irons, nares, naris, nears, neons, nines, noirs, noise, nonas, nones, noria, noris, ogres, orang, organ, ornis, osier, rages, ragis, rains, raise, range, ranis, regna, reign, reins, renig, renin, resin, rings, rinse, risen, roans, rosin, sager, saner, sarge, sarin, segni, segno, sengi, senna, senor, serai, serin, singe, siren, snare, snore, sonar.
	-5 letters: aeon, aero, ager, ages, agin, agio, agon, ains, airn, airs, anes, anis, anon, ares, arse, earn, ears, egis, egos, engs, eons, eras, ergo, ergs, erns, eros, gaen, gaes, gain, gane, gars, gear, gens, gien, gies, gins, girn, giro, gnar, goas, goer, goes, gone, gore, gran, grin, inns, inro, ions, ires, iron, nags, nans, naoi, naos, near, neon, nine, noes, nogs, noir, nona, none, nori, nose, oars, ogre, ones, ores, osar, rage, ragi, rags, rain, rang, rani, rase, regs, rein, reis, rias, rigs, ring, rins, rise, roan, roes, rose, sage, sago, sain, sane, sang, sari, sear, sego, sera, sign, sine, sing, sire, snag, snog, soar, sone, song, sora, sore, sori, sorn.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-n-n-o-r-s"
	+1 letter: coarsening, hoarsening, ignorances, omniranges, organzines, reasonings, resonating.
	+2 letters: anagnorises, ancestoring, androgynies, carcinogens, generations, nitrogenase, nonearnings, personating, reseasoning, resignation, unreasoning.
	+3 letters: androgenesis, antiestrogen, centimorgans, consecrating, denigrations, germinations, ignorantness, integrations, interrobangs, legionnaires, nitrogenases, nonstrategic, oversanguine, refashioning, resignations, ropedancings, sloganeering.
	+4 letters: antiestrogens, cocarcinogens, cogenerations, congregations, congressional, consternating, degenerations, demonstrating, emarginations, energizations, fashionmonger, grandioseness, housetraining, impersonating, impregnations, introgressant, nonagenarians, nonaggression, nonaggressive, nondecreasing, nongregarious, nonincreasing, octogenarians, organogenesis, overstraining, personalising, personalizing, recognizances, regenerations, remonstrating, subgeneration, transgression, undercoatings, unreasoningly, warmongerings.
	+5 letters: aggiornamentos, antiaggression, argumentations, bildungsromane, carcinogeneses, carcinogenesis, conservatizing, containerising, cotransferring, countershading, counterstating, deconsecrating, degranulations, disintegration, disorientating, fashionmongers, ferromagnesian, fragmentations, generalisation, germanizations, hydrogenations, ignorantnesses, integrationist, interrogations, introgressants, nonaggressions, noncarcinogens, nonregulations, nonsegregation, nonvegetarians, peregrinations, reconsecrating, regimentations, reintegrations, renegotiations, retransforming, subgenerations, superabounding, transgressions, ungraciousness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

52 65 61 73 6F 6E 69 6E 67

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-. . .- ... --- -. .. -. --.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010010 01100101 01100001 01110011 01101111 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#82 &#101 &#97 &#115 &#111 &#110 &#105 &#110 &#103

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0052 0065 0061 0073 006F 006E 0069 006E 0067

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day
inductive reasoning	49
deductive reasoning	46
deductive inductive reasoning	27
reasoning	24
logical reasoning	21
kohlberg moral reasoning	18
reasoning spatial	16
verbal reasoning	15
abstract reasoning	15
based case reasoning	13
moral reasoning	12
reasoning and logic	9
mathematical reasoning	9
reasoning test verbal	8
reasoning test	8
arithmetic reasoning	8
critical reasoning	7
circular reasoning	7
mcat verbal reasoning	6
reasoning spatial test	5
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Reasoning

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Reasoning

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Plato

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Roger Bacon

Thomas More

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Marbury v. Madison

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Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

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inductive reasoning

deductive reasoning

deductive inductive reasoning

reasoning

logical reasoning

kohlberg moral reasoning

reasoning spatial

verbal reasoning

abstract reasoning

based case reasoning

moral reasoning

reasoning and logic

mathematical reasoning

reasoning test verbal

reasoning test

arithmetic reasoning

critical reasoning

circular reasoning

mcat verbal reasoning

reasoning spatial test

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