reasoner
One who deduces
A reasoner is someone who reasons—who thinks through problems logically or argues from evidence to conclusions.
The word often appears in phrases that characterize how someone thinks: a careful reasoner, a faulty reasoner.
In philosophy and artificial intelligence, a reasoner may be a system that draws inferences from given premises.
One who contemplates
- sageWisdom keeper or seasoning
- scholarLearned, studious person
- analystOne who examines systematically
- logicianExpert in valid reasoning
strategist · detective · sleuth · diagnostician · debater · skeptic · inquirer · investigator
Greek founder of formal logic
- DescartesCogito ergo sum's author
- KantGerman Enlightenment thinker
- HumeScottish Enlightenment philosopher
- SocratesAncient Athenian questioning philosopher
Spinoza · Leibniz · Aquinas · Confucius · Avicenna · dialectician · logician · epistemologist
Conclusion from premises
- inferenceConclusion reached through reasoning
- syllogismFormal deductive argument structure
- premiseFoundation for logical argument
- conclusionEnd or deduction
argumentation · validity · soundness · inductive · deductive · proof · evidence · justification
To reflect deeply
- ponderThink deeply about
- contemplateConsider something thoroughly
- deliberateConsciously chosen, not accidental
- reflectReturn light or thought
analyze · discern · comprehend · synthesize · evaluate · hypothesize · theorize · problem-solve
thinker
One who contemplates
logician · strategist · detective · sleuth · diagnostician · debater · skeptic · inquirer · investigator · arbiter
Aristotle
Greek founder of formal logic
- DescartesCogito ergo sum's author
- KantGerman Enlightenment thinker
- HumeScottish Enlightenment philosopher
Socrates · Spinoza · Leibniz · Aquinas · Confucius · Avicenna · dialectician · logician · epistemologist · metaphysician
deduction
Conclusion from premises
- inferenceConclusion reached through reasoning
- syllogismFormal deductive argument structure
- premiseFoundation for logical argument
conclusion · argumentation · validity · soundness · inductive · deductive · proof · evidence · justification · cogent
cogitate
To reflect deeply
- ponderThink deeply about
- contemplateConsider something thoroughly
- deliberateConsciously chosen, not accidental
reflect · analyze · discern · comprehend · synthesize · evaluate · hypothesize · theorize · problem-solve · deduce
- thinkersthinkers, thinker, philosophers, philosopher, Aristotle
- critical thinkersskeptic, analyst, logician, questioner, evaluator
- Semantic Webtriple, triples, ontologies, knowledge graph, semantic web
- AIAI, machine learning, deep learning, algorithm, chatbot
reasonerirrationalist
Denier of reason's primacy
believer · mystic · dogmatist · true believer · intuitionist
- for some reasonWithout known cause
- within reasonTo a sensible degree
- for no good reasonLacking legitimate motivation
- abstract reasoningThought using concepts alone
- reason whyCause or justification
- no reason
reason, reasoning, reasons, reasonable, reasonably, unreasonable, reasoned, unreasonably, unreasonableness