ratiocinative

The process was not ratiocinative at all.

They're used to having their ratiocinative processes interrupted every 30 seconds by bleeping noises.

The first is intuitive mind, the second the animal, ratiocinative consciousness, the lower mentality and passions of the personality.

I called him a stercorarious despot with the ratiocinative powers of a peccary.

Hence choice is either desiderative reason or ratiocinative desire, and such an origin of action is a man.

His mind is too full, too crowded, too ratiocinative, for easy and frugal utterance.

Though true science, or ratiocinative knowledge, differs from experiential knowledge, it nevertheless begins with it.

Still, one does not read a cozy mystery for its crime puzzle or for the subtlety of the detective's ratiocinative procedures.

It is not Mr. Brett's way to strain himself or his hero's modest ratiocinative skills on investigative procedures.

It showed no agitation, nor discomfort; perhaps it felt none: the exact degree of the kragen's sensitivity and ratiocinative powers had never been determined.

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

In any case the pair are what one critic has called "a unique hybrid of the classic [i.e., ratiocinative] and hardboiled schools of detective fiction."

Not since Nero Wolfe has a detective of Morse's ratiocinative skills, refined tastes and tetchy temperament held court in such magisterial fashion.

For Hobbes, however, though such 'histories' or lengthy records of experience are of great prudential value and interest, the application of his ratiocinative method does not demand them.

Hobbes, on the other hand, is more of a theorist, less of a methodologist than Bacon: his distinction between experiential and ratiocinative knowledge is considered and explicitly made.

Typical of this British author's polished style are those series mysteries solved by Carolus Deene, a haughty history schoolmaster whose ratiocinative instincts quicken in atmospheric settings.

But what this uncommon hero - like the author, he is a professional magician - lacks in conventional tough-guy capabilities, he makes up in ratiocinative smarts and nice-guy charm.

But Mr. McCullough spins out the ratiocinative details shrewdly, threading his clues through Smyrna's unusual history and allowing his characters a full range of idiosyncratic colors.

Detectives who once applied their ratiocinative skills to the Mystery of Who Fiddled With Grandfather's Will are now beating the bushes for international gun runners and terrorist cells.

Thus, one dribbling patient was able to state the precise day of the week for any given date in history; no ratiocinative process was involved: the coin went in and the answer came out.

As for whether the story played fair, I'm afraid I hardly noticed and don't usually care about such things, being an impressionistic and not a ratiocinative (if there is such a word) reader.

Early in “Sherlock Holmes” — and also again, later on — the famous sleuth demonstrates his ratiocinative powers in a way undreamed of by his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle.

"Only those who realise how far intuition soars above the tardy processes of ratiocinative thought can form the faintest conception of that absolute Wisdom which transcends the ideas of Time and Space."

"The Man of the Crowd" stands as a transitional work between the haunting Gothic tales of the late 1830s and the ratiocinative fiction of the early forties, possessing obvious qualities of both.

Being compelled to divide his time between London and the rural town where a local brewer is giving him a run for his money seems to sharpen Lenox’s ratiocinative skills even as it broadens his character.