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51excogitate — (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb 1. To think or think about carefully and at length: chew on (or over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, meditate, mull, muse1, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, study, think, think out, think… …
52think out — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To think or think about carefully and at length: chew on (or over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse1, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, study, think, think… …
53think over — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To think or think about carefully and at length: chew on (or over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse1, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, study, think, think… …
54think through — (Roget s Thesaurus II) I verb To think or think about carefully and at length: chew on (or over), cogitate, consider, contemplate, deliberate, entertain, excogitate, meditate, mull, muse1, ponder, reflect, revolve, ruminate, study, think, think… …
55meditate — I. v. a. 1. Plan, contrive, devise, scheme, concoct, intend, purpose, design. 2. Contemplate, study, chew, ruminate, think on, reflect upon, revolve in the mind, turn over in the mind, dwell intently upon, chew the cud upon. II. v. n. Muse,… …
56deliberate — adj 1. intentional, purposeful, meant, destined, willful, volitional, voluntary; premeditated, preconceived, preconceptional, aforethought, prede terminate, predetermined, prepense; meditated, studious, studied, considered, weighed; preconcerted …
57mull — v 1. study, examine, con, evaluate, weigh, turn over, review, revolve; ruminate, cogitate, chew, chew one s cud, reflect on, think over, rack one s brains, cudgel one s brain, trouble one s head; brood, dwell on, be in a brown study; ponder, muse …
58ponder — v 1. cogitate, think over, rack one s brains, cudgel one s brain, trouble one s head; ruminate, chew, chew one s cud, brood, mull over, dwell on, be in a brown study; reflect, speculate, wonder about, dream about, muse; meditate, contemplate,… …
59puzzle — [v1] baffle, confuse addle, amaze, bamboozle*, beat, befog, befuddle, bemuse, bewilder, buffalo*, complicate, confound, discombobulate*, disconcert, distract, disturb, dumbfound, flabbergast, floor*, flummox, foil, frustrate, get to*, mystify,… …
60Psychology (The separation of) from philosophy — The separation of psychology from philosophy Studies in the sciences of mind 1815–1879 Edward S.Reed THE IMPOSSIBLE SCIENCE Traditional metaphysics The consensus of European opinion during and immediately after the Napoleonic era was that… …
