ratiocinatio

  1. Noun.  (rhetoric) Reasoning (typically with oneself) by asking questions.
  2. Noun.  (rhetoric) Making statements, then asking the reason for such an affirmation, then answering oneself. .

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.