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Ratiocination of the toxin's molecular structure allowed them to concoct a crude antidote that saved the man's life.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Ratiocination of the toxin's molecular structure allowed them to concoct a crude antidote that saved the man's life.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Ratiocination does not influence one of their actions in a million.
A Strange Discovery Charles Romyn Dake
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Ratiocination is a sort of speaking, eliciting something probable from the fact under consideration itself, which being explained and known of itself, confirms itself by its own power and principles.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Archbishop Whately had, indeed, rehabilitated the name of Logic, and the study of the forms, rules, and fallacies of Ratiocination; and Dr. Whewells writings had begun to excite an interest in the other part of my subject, the theory of induction.
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Writings, may seem yet to jeer those, who go always in search of God, without by means of Ratiocination, when they have him present within themselves.
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Spirit, and of all the Mystical Matters: That the Soul cannot attain to perfection and an union with God, by means of Meditation, and Ratiocination:
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Though the Soul perceive it self deprived of Discourse, or Ratiocination, yet it ought to presevere in Prayer, and not be afflicted, because that is its greater Felicity.
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That kind of Prayer is not only the easiest, but the most secure; because it is abstracted from the operations of the Imagination, that is always exposed to the Tricks of the Devil, and the extravagancies of Melancholy, and Ratiocination, wherein the Soul is easily Distracted, and being wrapt up in speculation, reflects on it self.
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Ratiocination is a relatively superficial and unreal path to the deity: "I will lay mine hand upon my mouth; I have heard of Thee by the hearing of the ear, but now mine eye seeth Thee."
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