reasoning by elimination
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| Noun | 1. | reasoning by elimination - analysis of a problem into alternative possibilities followed by the systematic rejection of unacceptable alternatives analytic thinking, analysis - the abstract separation of a whole into its constituent parts in order to study the parts and their relations |
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