reasoner
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- noun
- /ˈriːzənər/
- A good reasoner can solve complex problems by breaking them down into simpler parts.
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Watch on YouTubeWe might say similarly about those who are practical reasoners, not just theoretical reasoners.
- We might say similarly about those who are practical reasoners, not just theoretical reasoners.
- Like humans are statistical language model machines and, and, and they are capable reasoners.
- It erodes that, he says, could such dogmatical reasoners become sensible of the strange infirmities of human understanding, Right?
- His podcast Live from the Table as guests ranging from Israel critic Norman Finkelstein to atheist Sam Harris to former reasoners Radley Falco and Michael Moynihan.
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Human brains are multi-sensory reasoners.
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For the law and morality, then, a person is a practical reasoner.
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We might say similarly about those who are practical reasoners, not just theoretical reasoners.
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Many worry that using spreadsheets in schools will prevent students from mastering the arithmetic skills they need to be good quantitative reasoners.
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Certain commonly known experiments in cognition show that reasoners tend to ignore examining whether scenarios exist such that a status loss causes no offense or where offense occurs without the supposed precondition of status loss.
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In a debate, the skilled reasoner presented clear arguments that convinced the audience.
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During the discussion, she proved to be an excellent reasoner, always backing her claims with logical evidence.
Synonyms
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A person who has deep ideas about important subjects
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A calm thoughtful person who lives by reason
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A person who finds answers to problems by thinking carefully, like puzzles or math questions
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A person who studies rules of thinking and arguments
A person who thinks carefully and uses logic to solve problems
A person who makes clear logical arguments in debates
A person who draws conclusions from general and specific facts
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Etymology
Reasoner is the word reason plus the ending -er, and reason comes from the Latin ratio meaning 'calculation' or 'thought'. So a reasoner is literally 'one who reasons', a person who thinks and argues in a logical, careful way.