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Laws of generating intelligent conclusions, principally? (5)

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logic

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'laws of generating intelligent conclusions principally?' is the definition.
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'laws of generating intelligent conclusions principally?' is the wordplay.
'principally?' says to take the initial letters (I've seen 'principally' mean this).
The initial letters of 'laws of generating intelligent conclusions' is 'LOGIC'.

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(Other definitions for logic that I've seen before include "Rational thinking" , "Rigorous reasoning" , "4-ing" , "Reasoned thinking" , "Strict reasoning" .)

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