&c. 478; subtle reasoning; force of argument, strong point, strong argument, persuasive argument.
     arguments, reasons, pros and cons. 
     V. reason, argue, discuss, debate, dispute, wrangle- argufy[obs3],
bandy words, bandy arguments; chop logic; hold an argument, carry on an argument; controvert &c. (deny) 536; canvass; comment upon, moralize upon; spiritualize; consider &c. (examine) 461.
     open a discussion, open a case; try conclusions; join issue, be at
issue; moot; come to the point; stir a question, agitate a question, ventilate a question, torture a question; take up a side, take up a case.
     contend, take one’s stand upon, insist, lay stress on; infer &c. 480.
     follow from &c. (demonstration) 478. 
     Adj. reasoning &c. v.; rationalistic; argumentative, controversial,
dialectic, polemical; discursory[obs3], discursive; disputatious; Aristotelian[obs3], eristic[obs3], eristical[obs3].
     debatable, controvertible.
     logical; relevant &c. 23. 
     Adv. for, because, hence, whence, seeing that, since, sith[obs3], then
thence so; for that reason, for this reason, for which reason; for as, inasmuch as; whereas, ex concesso[Lat], considering, in consideration of; therefore, wherefore; consequently, ergo, thus, accordingly; a fortiori.
     in conclusion, in fine; finally, after all, au bout du compt[Fr], on
the whole, taking one thing with another. 
     Phr. ab actu ad posse valet consecutio [Lat]; per troppo dibatter la
verita si perde [It]; troppo disputare la verita fa errare [It].

     #477. [The absence of reasoning.] Intuition. [False or vicious
reasoning; show of reason.] Sophistry. —­ N. intuition, instinct, association, hunch, gut feeling; presentiment, premonition; rule of thumb; superstition; astrology[obs3]; faith (supposition) 514.
     sophistry, paralogy[obs3], perversion, casuistry, jesuitry,
equivocation, evasion; chicane, chicanery; quiddet[obs3], quiddity; mystification; special pleading; speciousness &c. adj.; nonsense &c. 497; word sense, tongue sense.
     false reasoning, vicious reasoning, circular reasoning; petitio
principii[Lat], ignoratio elenchi[Lat]; post hoc ergo propter hoc[Lat]; non sequitur, ignotum per ignotius[Lat].
     misjudgment &c. 481; false teaching &c. 538.
     sophism, solecism, paralogism[obs3]; quibble, quirk, elenchus[obs3],
elench[obs3], fallacy, quodlibet, subterfuge, subtlety, quillet[obs3]; inconsistency, antilogy[obs3]; “a delusion, a mockery, and a snare” [Denman]; claptrap, cant, mere words; “lame and impotent conclusion” [Othello].
     meshes of sophistry, cobwebs of sophistry; flaw in an argument; weak
point, bad case.
     overrefinement[obs3]; hairsplitting &c. v. 
     V. judge intuitively, judge by intuition; hazard a proposition, hazard
a guess, talk at random.
     reason ill, falsely &c. adj.; misjudge &c. 481; paralogize[obs3].