单词 | reasoning power |
释义 | > as lemmasreasoning power General attributive, as reasoning faculty, reasoning ground, reasoning power, reasoning thread, etc. ΚΠ 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions x. 58 They did vtter their beginninges or prohemes with a gentle and a moderate voice, their narrations, and reasoning discourses with more straining, and louder. 1651 T. Hobbes De Cive iii. §25 They destroy and weaken the reasoning faculty, who doe that which disturbs the mind from its naturall state. 1686 F. Fane Sacrifice i. ii. 24 My Reasoning faculty, that was my guide, Is so bewildred in this Hellish Fog,That I do often grope for't, seldom find it. 1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. i. 6 To address yourself to the Work of improving your reasoning Powers. 1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) i. 179 Or quite unravel all the reas'ning thread. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 234 The reas'ning pow'r vouchsafed of course inferred The pow'r to cloath that reason with his word. 1846 G. F. Graham Eng. Synonymes 215 In order to persuade, we address the feelings and the imagination. In order to convince, we address the reasoning faculty. 1875 E. White Life in Christ i. i. 14 Such contradictory arguments as these, the reasoning-grounds..of two opposing schools. 1901 B. Hollander Revival of Phrenol. i. 36 The frontal lobe, as the seat of the reasoning faculty, is an inhibitory apparatus against the lower and more instinctive natural impulses. 1940 Amer. Econ. Rev. 30 612 Such consideration is vital to the stimulation of interest, reasoning power, judiciousness, and understanding on the part of students. 2005 K. Corrigan Reading Plotinus ii. 56 The common sense sees falsely before the reasoning faculty has passed judgement upon it. < as lemmas |
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