reasoningrea‧son‧ing /ˈriːzənɪŋ/ ●○○ noun [uncountable] 
What is the reasoning behind this decision?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Although I understood her reasoning, I did not agree with her decision.
- I found it hard to follow his line of reasoning.
- logical reasoning
- The architect was asked to explain the reasoning behind his new design.
- But I regret I can not agree with some of the reasoning in the judgments.
- The approach also works well when alternatives can be considered and rejected through reasoning and facts.
- The logic of this line of reasoning led to a consideration of land nationalisation.
- There appear to be several major faults in the reasoning that animal decline was the result of such plant disappearances.
- These cases illustrate well that treaty reasoning is not dominant in third party situations where there are displacing factors.
- This excellent piece of reasoning then went into their future operational role.
Longman Language Activatora logical way of thinking
a way of thinking that is clear and sensible because it is based on a series of facts or ideas connected in a correct and intelligent way: · Sophie questioned the logic of his arguments.logic behind: · I couldn't see the logic behind the decision to close the school.
a logical way of thinking, used especially to make decisions or to explain why something happened: · Although I understood her reasoning, I did not agree with her decision.line of reasoning (=the reasoning someone has used to find an answer, explanation etc for a particular problem): · I found it hard to follow his line of reasoning.reasoning behind: · The architect was asked to explain the reasoning behind his new design.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYCOLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES It seemed useless to pursue this line of questioning. Opposition parties soon realized they would have to try a different line of attack.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
It seemed useless to pursue this line of questioning. Opposition parties soon realized they would have to try a different line of attack.· This process is in many ways analogous to deductive reasoning.· Even so the qualification has been imposed by deductive reasoning.· It results from a process of logical, deductive reasoning, unsullied by personal feelings or practicalities.· Before doing so, a little will be said of the character of logic and deductive reasoning.· Consider simple example of the power of deductive reasoning in ethics.· The kind of reasoning involved in derivations of this kind is called deductive reasoning.· A study of deductive reasoning constitutes the discipline of logic.
· I have called it inductivist because it is based on inductive reasoning, as will be explained shortly.· Some examples suggested that there are positive grounds for suspecting the alleged reliability of inductive reasoning.· The objectivity of inductivist science derives from the fact that both observation and inductive reasoning are themselves objective.· The same goes for the inductive reasoning by means of which scientific knowledge is derived from the observation statements.· Indeed, instinct rather than inductive reasoning marked her approach to life.
· The exaltation of emotion and intuition above logical reasoning can readily disentangle them from any such disciplinary anchorage.· It was a logical man's reasoning, a scientist's smug answer.· It results from a process of logical, deductive reasoning, unsullied by personal feelings or practicalities.· Memory, logical reasoning, and hand-eye coordination were unimpaired.
· Reductivist arguments can be supported by the form of moral reasoning known as utilitarianism.· Gilligan combines a traditional method of measuring moral reasoning, through standardized dilemmas, with interviews.
· I wish only to have made it sufficiently clear that scientific reasoning is a chimera.· This qualified chimera image will allow our comparison of Presocratic reasoning with scientific reasoning to be more precise.· In order to approach this question, it will help to develop a loose distinction between scientific reasoning and scientific attitudes.· The inductive method can not, however, be the only true form of scientific reasoning.· With attention focused on p values and CIs, could the role of chance in scientific reasoning appear falsely magnified?· This is why I count it as a scientific attitude rather than a part of scientific reasoning.
NOUN· We know they exist, but how do they affect the reasoning process?
VERB· He also applies good numerical reasoning skills to data, and analyses information critically before he makes decisions.· It is time we applied the same reasoning to all.
· But Tepilit could not follow the reasoning.· I can't quite follow the reasoning there.· It did not follow that Coopers reached the same conclusion as Peats by following the same reasoning.· I am pleased you follow my reasoning so readily, Noyon.
· Scientific method, using experiment and reasoning, has led to a marvellous extension of knowledge.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
- Clearly the more elaborate the dress, the more dress-fasteners required, although there is here the danger of a circular argument.
- Failure to recognize this leads to circular arguments.
- Pupils can often fall back on a circular argument such as: Why is the relationship linear?
- The Court refused to allow itself to be caught in a circular argument as to which State needed to waive immunity first.
- The irony in all this is the circular logic of what appears to be the new strategic competition.
- This appears to be a circular argument, typical of closed-belief systems.
- We start by talking about a problem of circular reasoning to motivate the diagram.
WORD FAMILYnounreasonreasoningreasonablenessadjectivereasonable ≠ unreasonablereasonedverbreasonadverbreasonably ≠ unreasonably
a process of thinking carefully about something in order to make a judgmentscientific/logical/legal reasoningreasoning behind What is the reasoning behind this decision?