English-Finnish translations for reasoning

• perustelu
  Tämä oli virallinen perustelu. That was the official reasoning.
  Vastaus oli kielteinen ja perustelu järjetön. The response was negative and the reasoning absurd.
  Tämä perustelu voi vaikuttaa uskottavalta, mutta minusta se on harhaan johtava. This reasoning may be superficially plausible but I find it specious.

Definition of reasoning

• The deduction of inferences or interpretations from premises; abstract thought; ratiocination

Related words

• inductive reasoning
• deductive reasoning
• abductive reasoning
• error in reasoning
• logical reasoning