the rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics | the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference |
a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school | a system of reasoning |
any personal belief about how to live or how to deal with a situation | reasoned and reasonable judgment |
| the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation |
| the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations |