"abstract thought" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: cerebration, intellection, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process - the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
subtypes:
- analysis, analytic thinking - the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations
- argument, argumentation, line, line of reasoning, logical argument - a course of reasoning aimed at demonstrating a truth or falsehood; the methodical process of logical reasoning
- conjecture - reasoning that involves the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence
- deduction, deductive reasoning, synthesis - reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
- illation, inference - the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation
- anticipation, prediction, prevision - the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future)
- ratiocination - logical and methodical reasoning
- reasoning backward, regress - the reasoning involved when you assume the conclusion is true and reason backward to the evidence
- synthesis, synthetic thinking - the combination of ideas into a complex whole
same as: logical thinking, reasoning