The phrase "attempts reasoning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing efforts to engage in logical thought or problem-solving.
Example: "In his essay, he attempts reasoning to justify his conclusions about climate change."
Alternatives: "tries to reason" or "makes an effort to reason".
By the time the storm subsided, Howe reconsidered launching an attack, reasoning that preserving the army for battle elsewhere was of higher value than attempting to hold Boston.
And since suicide is contagious, others have perhaps made copycat attempts already, reasoning that if even Robin Williams couldn't make things work, they can't, either.
The movie's famous computer Hal 9,000 was a wonderful forerunner of artificial intelligence: Hal could understand speech, beat humans at chess, recognise faces, and attempt moral reasoning.
Despite years of service, Pc Gunn has never discharged his Taser outside of training, but as my attempts at verbal reasoning fail and the suspect brings a knife to his wrist, I order him to first draw, then fire his Taser.
Previous attempts at causal reasoning have been limited to scenes with simple visual features such as feature points and blobs.
In this and other ways, informal logic's attempt to model reasoning reflects, and has important implications for, philosophical concerns about the nature of rationality, the nature of the mind and its processes, the standards of good reasoning, the value of logic and rhetoric, and the social, political and epistemological role of reasoning and argument.
The defence argued for a conviction for manslaughter and attempted manslaughter, by reasoning that the killing was in the heat of the moment and that the defendant may have a paranoid personality disorder.
It takes just one politically motivated or disgruntled postgraduate to scupper any attempts at secrecy, the reasoning goes.
Batman attempts to stop him, reasoning: "If our national leaders were elected on the basis of tricky slogans, brass bands and pretty girls, our country would be in a terrible mess, wouldn't it?" Hmmmm.
One of the earliest attempts to formalize nonmonotonic reasoning, Sandewall 1972, addresses the frame problem.
