Meaning and example
the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism)
The passage used "ratiocination" to mean the proposition arrived at by logical reasoning (such as the proposition that must follow from the major and minor premises of a syllogism).
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of -0.737 places ratiocination in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 22.8% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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