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    LOGICAL THINKING

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Thinking that is coherent and logicalplay

    Synonyms:

    abstract thought; logical thinking; reasoning

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("logical thinking" is a kind of...):

    cerebration; intellection; mentation; thinking; thought; thought process (the process of using your mind to consider something carefully)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "logical thinking"):

    analysis; analytic thinking (the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations)

    argument; argumentation; line; line of reasoning; logical argument (a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning)

    conjecture (reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence)

    deduction; deductive reasoning; synthesis (reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect))

    illation; inference (the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation)

    anticipation; prediction; prevision (the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future))

    ratiocination (logical and methodical reasoning)

    reasoning backward; regress (the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence)

    synthesis; synthetic thinking (the combination of ideas into a complex whole)

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