The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘An Essay toward Improving Our Reasoning in Security and in Uberty’

Term: 
Reasoning
Quote: 

Reasoning-power; or Ratiocination, called by some Dianoetic Reason, is the power of drawing inferences that tend toward the truth, when their premises or the virtual assertions from which they set out are true.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1913). An Essay toward Improving Our Reasoning in Security and in Uberty. MS [R] 682
Date: 
1913
References: 
EP 2:464
Citation: 
‘Reasoning’ (pub. 03.02.13-08:59). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-essay-toward-improving-our-reasoning-security-and-uberty-2.
Posted: 
Feb 03, 2013, 08:59 by Sami Paavola
Last revised: 
Jan 07, 2014, 01:00 by Commens Admin