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Paralogy :: Paralogy (n.) False reasoning; paralogism.

How :: How (adv.) For what reason; from what cause.

Wherefore :: Wherefore (adv. & conj.) For what reason; why; -- used interrogatively.

Treason :: Treason (n.) Loosely, the betrayal of any trust or confidence; treachery; perfidy..

Attaint :: Attaint (v. t.) To subject (a person) to the legal condition formerly resulting from a sentence of death or outlawry, pronounced in respect of treason or felony; to affect by attainder..

Outrageous :: Outrageous (n.) Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious..

Mind :: Mind (v.) The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body..

Persuade :: Persuade (v. t.) To convince by argument, or by reasons offered or suggested from reflection, etc.; to cause to believe..

Premise :: Premise (n.) To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to explain or aid in understanding what follows; especially, to lay down premises or first propositions, on which rest the subsequent reasonings..

Deduce :: Deduce (v. t.) To derive or draw; to derive by logical process; to obtain or arrive at as the result of reasoning; to gather, as a truth or opinion, from what precedes or from premises; to infer; -- with from or out of..

Arraign :: Arraign (v. t.) To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal..

Sematology :: Sematology (n.) The doctrine of signs as the expression of thought or reasoning; the science of indicating thought by signs.

Conclusion :: Conclusion (n.) Any inference or result of reasoning.

Inversion :: Inversion (n.) A method of reasoning in which the orator shows that arguments advanced by his adversary in opposition to him are really favorable to his cause.

Account :: Account (n.) A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts..

Reason :: Reason (n.) A thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; a just ground for a conclusion or an action; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation; the efficient cause of an occurrence or a phenomenon; a motive for an action or a determination; proof, more or less decisive, for an opinion or a conclusion; principle; efficient cause; final cause; ground of argument..

Mellow :: Mellow (superl.) Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple..

Argue :: Argue (v. t.) To debate or discuss; to treat by reasoning; as, the counsel argued the cause before a full court; the cause was well argued..

Hypercritic :: Hypercritic (n.) One who is critical beyond measure or reason; a carping critic; a captious censor.

Visionary :: Visionary (n.) One whose imagination overpowers his reason and controls his judgment; an unpractical schemer; one who builds castles in the air; a daydreamer.

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