sophistry, ipse dixit, logical fallacy, epistemology, hairsplitting, positivist, hermeneutics, syllogisms, sophistic, exegetical, reasoning, pedantry, sophists, arguer, casuistry, monism, polemics, empiricism, platonism, nominalism, arguments, refutations, praxis, dogmatism, presuppositions, construal, dialogic, constructivism, reductionism, aristotelian, obiter dicta, explication, incommensurability, hegelian, logical positivism, dialectic, circumlocution, philological, tendentiousness, disputation, rhetoricians, theorization, subjectivism, indefiniteness, dualism, genitive, exegesis, factuality, parliamentarianism, apologetics, speciousness, philo, demagogy, legalism, deductive reasoning, evolutionism, supernaturalism, versification, counterarguments, dissimulation, literalism, logics, obiter dictum, sophistical, originalism, tu quoque, discourse, dialectical materialism, eurocentrism, parmenides, socratic method, intertextuality, theological, ecclesiology, didactics, theism, reductio ad absurdum, intellectualization, cogency, essentialism, socratic, chiasmus, teleology, kantian, edmund husserl, thomist, dramaturgy, theology, excursus, aristotelian logic, esotericism, ad hominem, prepositional phrase, historicism, laicism, pedagogy, jurisprudence, tautologies, existentialist philosophy, psychoanalytical, historiography, anthropic, argument, ratiocination, reasonings, theorizing, inquiry, groundwork, justification, enquiry, grounding, justifications, rationales, theorising, thinking, discussion, disquisition, philosophizing, rationale

line of inquiry, line of questioning, policy

casuistry, forensic, logical fallacy

abstract thought, logical thinking

line, line of reasoning, logical argument