Rationalization vs Ratiocination - What's the difference?
rationalization | ratiocination |
The process, or result of rationalizing.
A statement of one's motives, or of the causes of some event.
A reorganization of a company or organization in order to improve its efficiency.
(psychiatry) The concealment of true motivation in some non-threatening way.
(mathematics) The simplification of an expression without changing its value.
Reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.
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* 1916 , New York Times, "
Thought or reasoning that is exact, valid and rational.
A proposition arrived at by such thought.
As nouns the difference between rationalization and ratiocination
is that rationalization is the process, or result of rationalizing while ratiocination is reasoning, conscious deliberate inference; the activity or process of reasoning.rationalization
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Alternative forms
*rationalisationNoun
(wikipedia rationalization)Synonyms
* reasoning, rationale *(reorganization of a company or organization) consolidation *(concealment of true motivation) *(simplification of a mathematical expression)ratiocination
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Noun
(en noun)- He'd run in debt by disputation, \ And pay with ratiocination.
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- It is hard to follow the kinks of woman suffrage ratiocination .