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| cogitate | v. ponder; think over; consider with care |
| criterion | n. standard; rule or test for judging pl. criteria |
| crux | n. most important point; essential part |
| deduce | v. infer; derive by reasoning |
| dilemma | n. situation requiring a choice between 2 equally bad alternatives; predicament |
| dogmatic | adj. asserting opinions as if they were factsp; opinionated; asserted without proof |
| eclectic | adj. choosing (ideas, methods, etc.) from various sources |
| fallacious | adj. based on a fallacy (erroneous idea); misleading; deceptive |
| fallible | adj. liable to make a mistake |
| heterodox | adj. rejecting regularly accepted beliefs or doctrines; heretical ant. orthodox |
| hypothetical | adj. supposed; having char. of a hypothesis, a supposition made as a basis for reasoning or research |
| illusion | n. misleading appearance; false impression; misconception |
| indubitable | adj. certain; incontrovertible; indisputable |
| orthodox | adj. generally accepted; esp in religion; conventional; approved ant. heterodox |
| paradoxical | adj. having the char. of a paradox (a self-contradictory statement which may nevertheless be true) |
| plausible | adj. superficially true or reasonable; apparantly trustworthy |
| preposterous | adj. senseless; absurd; irrational |
| rational | adj. 1)able to think clearly; intelligent; sensible 2) based on reason |
| rationalize | v. devise excuses for one's actions; desires; failures, etc. |
| sophistry | n. clever but deceptive reasoning |
