LINE OF REASONING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does line of reasoning mean? 

• LINE OF REASONING (noun)
  The noun LINE OF REASONING has 1 sense:

1. a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning

  Familiarity information: LINE OF REASONING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LINE OF REASONING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

argument; argumentation; line; line of reasoning; logical argument

Context example:

I can't follow your line of reasoning

Hypernyms ("line of reasoning" is a kind of...):

abstract thought; logical thinking; reasoning (thinking that is coherent and logical)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "line of reasoning"):

line of inquiry; line of questioning (an ordering of questions so as to develop a particular argument)

casuistry (argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading)

policy (a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government)

 Context examples 

Now we will take another line of reasoning.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)