ratiocination

The mental process of passing from the cognition of premises to the cognition of the conclusion; reasoning.

A mental product and object consisting of premises and a conclusion drawn from them; inference; an argumentation.

Synonyms Reasoning, etc. See inference.

The process of reasoning, or deducing conclusions from premises; deductive reasoning.

Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.

Thought or reasoning that is exact, valid and rational.

A proposition arrived at by such thought.

logical and methodical reasoning

the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)