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Definition of Reasoners
1. reasoner [n] - See also: reasoner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reasoners
Literary usage of Reasoners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elements of Logic: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the by Richard Whately (1858)
"... in like manner be fairly expressed thus—" most infidels are not candid ;
therefore most infidels are not good reasoners:" which is a regular syllogism m ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"Nor № Foster tobe numbered among metaphysic reasoners ; fur neither the limit of
his faculty, nor his moral tastes, would have allowed him ю grasp pure ..."
3. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"... which, furious at discovering the trick that had been put upon it, sentenced
him to the pillory. reasoners, the men of profound learning? ..."
4. Annals of the American Revolution: Or, A Record of the Causes and Events by Jedidiah Morse (1824)
"'Speculative reasoners, during that age. raised many objections to the planting
those remote colonies ; and foretold, that, aller draining their mother ..."
5. Sermons and discourses on several subjects and occasions by Francis Atterbury (1820)
"... no doubt but one of these forward reasoners would have concluded immediately,
that the thing proposed was unphilosophical and absurd. ..."
6. The Autobiography, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of Sir Egerton by Egerton Brydges (1834)
"Subtle ingenuity not greatness of mind—Greatness of thought often vague—Cold
reasoners—Imaginative loftiness—Milton and Raleigh —What is a scribbler ? ..."
7. The World as Imagination (series I) by Edward Douglas Fawcett (1916)
"Radical re»»oner« ««KL empiricism, which insists on verification, knows nothing
of the bald logical. It knows only of individual reasoners and the drive of ..."
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