Reasoning
Reasoning
With God
Job 13:3; Job 13:17-28
God reasons with men
Exo 4:11; Exo 20:5; Exo 20:11; Isa 1:18; Isa 5:3-4; Isa 43:26; Hos 4:1; Mic 6:2
Natural understanding
Dan 4:36
To be applied to religion
1Co 10:15; 1Pe 3:15
Not a sufficient guide in human affairs
Deu 12:8; Pro 3:5; Pro 14:12
Of the Pharisees
Luk 5:21-22; Luk 20:5
Of Paul from the scriptures
Act 17:2; Act 18:4; Act 19; Act 24:25
The gospel cannot be explained by
1Co 1:18-28; 1Co 2:1-14 Investigation; Philosophy
Fuente: Nave’s Topical Bible
Reasoning
1. Discursive thought. Faculty of connecting ideas consciously, coherently and purposively. Thinking in logical form. Drawing of inferences. Process of passing from given data or premisses to legitimate conclusions. Forming or discovering rightly relations between ideas. Deriving properly statements from given assumptions or facts. Power, manifestation and result of valid argumentation. Ordering concepts according to the canons of logic. Legitimate course of a debate.
2. In psychology, the act or process of exercising the mind, the faculty of connecting judgments; the power and fact of using reason; the thought-processes of discussion, debate, argumentation or inference; the manifestation of the discursive property of the mind; the actual use of arguments with a view to convince or persuade; the art and method or proving or demonstrating; the orderly development of thought with a view to, or the attainment of a conclusion believed to be valid. — The origin, nature and value of reasoning are debated questions, with their answers ranging from spiritualism (reasoning as the exercise of a faculty of the soul) to materialism (reasoning as an epiphenomenon depending on the brain), with all the modern schools of psychology ordering themselves between them. A few points of agreement might be mentioned here
reasoning follows judgment and apprehension, whichever of the last two thought-processes comes first in our psychological development;
reasoning proceeds according to four main types, namely deductive, inductive, presumptive and deceptive;
reasoning assumes a belief in its own validity undisturbed by doubt, and implies various logical habits and methods which may be organized into a logical doctrine;
reasoning requires a reference to some ultimate principles to justify its progress
3. In logic, Reasoning is the process of inference, it is the process of passing from certain propositions already known or assumed to be true, to another truth distinct from them but following from them; it is a discourse or argument which infers one proposition from another, or from a group of others having some common elements between them. The inference is necessary in the case of deductive reasoning; and contingent, probable or wrong, in the case of inductive, presumptive or deceptive reasoning respectively. — There are various types of reasoning, and proper methods for each type. The definition, discussion, development and evaluation of these types and methods form an important branch of logic and its subdivisions. The details of the application of reasoning to the various sciences, form the subject of methodology. All these types are reducible to one or the other of the two fundamental processes or reasoning, namely deduction and induction. It must be added that the logical study of reasoning is normative logic does not analyze it simply in its natural development, but with a view to guide it towards coherence, validity or truth. — T.G.
Fuente: The Dictionary of Philosophy
Reasoning
“a thought, reasoning, inward questioning” [akin to dialogizomai, see REASON (Verb), No. 1], is translated “reasoning” or “reasonings” in Luk 5:22, RV (AV, “thoughts”); Luk 9:46; Luk 9:47, RV (AV, “thoughts”); Luk 24:38 (AV, “thoughts”); Rom 1:21 (AV, “imaginations”); 1Co 3:20 (AV, “thoughts”). See DISPUTE, A, No. 1.
Note: In those mss. which contain Act 28:29, occurs suzetesis, “a disputation,” which is translated “reasoning” (AV).