ratiocinative

comparative more ratiocinative · superlative most ratiocinative

1. Pertaining to or characterized by ratiocination, discursive thinking, or inferential knowledge.

   […] bloodthirsty interest in the ratiocinative faculty […]

   1957, Lawrence Durrell, Justine, Faber, page 80

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   Only those who realise how far Intuition soars above the tardy processes of ratiocinative thought can form the faintest conception […]

   1888, H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine, volume I, Theosophical University Press, page 1

   If a person is developed merely in an intellectual, ratiocinative way, then he will be a contradictory mix of cleverness and savagery.

   1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 225