Good and Reasoning

Good

Good noun - Something that provides happiness or does good for a person or thing.

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Reasoning and good are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Reasoning" instead a noun "Good".

Nearby Words: goodness, goodly, goody

Reasoning noun - The thought processes that have been established as leading to valid solutions to problems.

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Good and reasoning are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Good" instead a noun "Reasoning".

Nearby Words: reason, reasonable, reasoned, reasonably

good	good good	good reasoning
actual	actual good	actual reasoning
real	real good	real reasoning
little	little good	little reasoning
Other adjectives: main, inherent, new, primary, basic, higher.

His reasoning: vegetarianism is good; Jesus was good; therefore Jesus must have been a vegetarian.

Source: Association Fallacy
While there are some examples of a good deed having a genuinely good outcome, most do not follow this line of reasoning.

Source: Family-Unfriendly Aesop
Handsome Jack of Borderlands 2 operates off of the reasoning of "Hyperion = good, everyone else = bad", completely disregarding everything good his enemies have done and his own moral bankruptcy.

Source: Black and White Insanity

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