REASONING BY ELIMINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reasoning by elimination mean? 

• REASONING BY ELIMINATION (noun)
  The noun REASONING BY ELIMINATION has 1 sense:

1. analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives

  Familiarity information: REASONING BY ELIMINATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REASONING BY ELIMINATION (noun)

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Meaning:

Analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

elimination; reasoning by elimination

Hypernyms ("reasoning by elimination" is a kind of...):

analysis; analytic thinking (the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations)