By that reasoning

The answer

ERGO

4 letters. See every clue for this answer on the ERGO answer page.

Used 13 times across 9 distinct years; most recently in 2024; first recorded in 2002. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.

Other clues for ERGO

Every other clue in this collection answered by ERGO, most used first.

• Therefore - used 684 times, most recently in 2026
• Thus - used 240 times, most recently in 2026
• Hence - used 221 times, most recently in 2026
• "Cogito, ___ sum" - used 189 times, most recently in 2026
• Consequently - used 105 times, most recently in 2026
• As a result - used 88 times, most recently in 2025
• So - used 50 times, most recently in 2025
• It follows that - used 29 times, most recently in 2026
• "And so ..." - used 25 times, most recently in 2026
• Therefore, to Descartes - used 24 times, most recently in 2022
• Proof word - used 22 times, most recently in 2019
• Logician's word - used 17 times, most recently in 2024
• Accordingly - used 16 times, most recently in 2024
• "By that logic ... " - used 16 times, most recently in 2026
• "Cogito, ___ sum": Descartes - used 14 times, most recently in 2024
• Logician's "therefore" - used 14 times, most recently in 2023
• Start of a conclusion - used 14 times, most recently in 2025
• Conclusion lead-in - used 13 times, most recently in 2018
• Descartes' "therefore" - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Therefore: Lat. - used 11 times, most recently in 2019
• Hence: Lat. - used 10 times, most recently in 1967
• Logician's transition - used 10 times, most recently in 2021
• Descartes's "therefore" - used 9 times, most recently in 2017
• For this reason - used 9 times, most recently in 2026
• "Logically, then ... " - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
• Beginning of a conclusion - used 8 times, most recently in 2023
• Cogito-sum connector - used 8 times, most recently in 2019
• Descartes quote word - used 8 times, most recently in 2018
• For that reason - used 8 times, most recently in 2026
• "And thus ... " - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Cartesian conjunction - used 7 times, most recently in 2007
• Conclusion starter - used 7 times, most recently in 2026
• Word used in logic - used 7 times, most recently in 2015
• That being the case - used 6 times, most recently in 2026
• Word before a conclusion - used 6 times, most recently in 2014
• Word in a proof - used 6 times, most recently in 2023

Related clues

Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.

• For fear that - LEST, used 503 times
• In that case - IFSO, used 231 times
• "___ Well That Ends Well" - ALLS, used 158 times
• At that time - THEN, used 134 times
• "That makes sense" - ISEE, used 132 times
• "___ there, done that" - BEEN, used 123 times

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