REASONER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reasoner mean? 

• REASONER (noun)
  The noun REASONER has 1 sense:

1. someone who reasons logically

  Familiarity information: REASONER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REASONER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who reasons logically

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

ratiocinator; reasoner

Hypernyms ("reasoner" is a kind of...):

thinker (someone who exercises the mind (usually in an effort to reach a decision))

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

analogist (someone who looks for analogies or who reasons by analogy)

casuist; sophist (someone whose reasoning is subtle and often specious)

Derivation:

reason (think logically)

reason (decide by reasoning; draw or come to a conclusion)

reason (present reasons and arguments)

 Context examples 

It can be built up as an exact science by the reasoner.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They are very bad reasoners, and vehemently given to opposition, unless when they happen to be of the right opinion, which is seldom their case.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

“You are no very shrewd reasoner, fellow,” quoth the knight; “for if it be within the law for you to threaten him with your club, then it is also lawful for me to threaten you with my sword.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is one of those cases where the art of the reasoner should be used rather for the sifting of details than for the acquiring of fresh evidence.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For instance: whereas all writers and reasoners have agreed, that there is a strict universal resemblance between the natural and the political body; can there be any thing more evident, than that the health of both must be preserved, and the diseases cured, by the same prescriptions?

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In the example which you read to me, said I, the reasoner drew his conclusions from the actions of the man whom he observed.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That one word, my dear Watson, should have told me the whole story had I been the ideal reasoner which you are so fond of depicting.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)