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One who reasons or argues; as, a fair reasoner; a close reasoner; a logical reasoner.

One who argues; a reasoner; a disputant.

splaying, superficial and undigested knowledge; without culture or profudity; as, a crude reasoner.

One versed in dialectics; a logician; a reasoner.

One who is governed by fancy. "Not reasoners, but fanciers." Macaulay.

he latter is admitted to be self-evident, while the former may be agreed upon between two reasoners, and admitted by both, but not as proposition which it would be impossible to deny. Eng. Cyc.

One who accepts rationalism as a theory or system; also, disparagingly, a false reasoner. See Citation under Reasonist.

ns are now commonly called "reasonists" and "rationalists," to distinguish them from true reasoners and rational inquirers. Waterland.

science; evincing science or systematic knowledge; as, a scientific chemist; a scientific reasoner; a scientific argument. Bossuet is as scientific in the structure of his sentences. Lander. Scientific method, the method employed in exact science and consisting of: (a) Careful and abundant observation and experiment.…

nce. Shak. I something fear my father's wrath. Shak. We have something fairer play than a reasoner could have expected formerly. Burke. My sense of touch is something coarse. Tennyson. It must be done to-night, And something from the palace. Shak.

Hence, an impostor in argument; a captious or fallacious reasoner.