thinking

Definition

The action or process of using one's mind to consider or reason about something.

Etymology

From Middle English thinking, thynkynge, thenkyng, equivalent to think + -ing.

Example Sentences

• "What is your thinking on this subject?"
• "But how the neurons are organised in these lobes and ganglia remains obscure. Yet this is the level of organisation that does the actual thinking—and is, presumably, the seat of consciousness."
• "When BR "back-checked" (BR's term) the financial results of steam replacement across 49 schemes, where DMUs had been substituted on the London Midland Region, only one was now profitable. BR thinking on such substitutions referred to "betterment", not profit or loss."