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Definition of Ratiocinates
1. ratiocinate [v] - See also: ratiocinate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ratiocinates
Literary usage of Ratiocinates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1855)
"This being (ens rationis ratiocinates) is therefore a mere idea, and is not
assumed to be a thing which is real absolutely and in itself. ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1900)
"... and pronounce the two the same before I extend my hand, as to affirm that the
chicken ratiocinates before he proceeds to devour his worin. ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... to set, ie "one who accounts, calculates or ratiocinates "), originally the
title of a variety of administrative officials in the Byzantine Empire, ..."
4. The Catholic Spirit in Modern English Literature by George Nauman Shuster (1922)
"Man, however, is not merely a machine that ratiocinates ; he is primarily a person
who acts. Consequently, his conclusions will surely be modified by ..."
5. Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1881)
"This being, demanded by reason, (ens ra- tionis ratiocinates), is no doubt a mere
idea, and not therefore received as something absolutely real and ..."
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