"thin reasoning" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a weak or insufficient argument or justification for a belief or action. Example: The CEO's decision to cut employee benefits was met with criticism for its thin reasoning.
Not only is Ms. Rosenthal ignoring a long-settled debate about the importance of rainforests on the basis of a lone source and paper-thin reasoning, but she is advocating the dangerous fallacy which threatened this ecosystem in the first place: that the nature we destroy can, in some way, be replaced.
You had to be rail thin, the reasoning went, to avoid looking fat.
Kirschner preferred, ultimately, to create skeletal traction with thinner hardware, reasoning that chromed 0.7-mm steel piano was less traumatic than Steinmann's pin and reduced the risk of infection.
Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, balancing on a thin blade of reasoning, declared Thursday that the I.O.C. was "morally responsible" but not legally responsible for Kumaritashvili's death.
This reasoning is thin and self-serving.
Reasoning that thin sections would minimize sequestration within the matrix fenestrations, crysostat = processed matrices were used for biopanning.
This reasoning seems a bit thin: aren't other societies also exposed to Western norms, especially in the modern age of ubiquitous smartphones and mass media?
The cerebral cortex is the region of the brain centrally involved in reasoning, planning and mood, and thinning of the cortex may affect an individual's ability to pay attention to and interpret social and emotional cues, scientists suggested.
The implication is clearly that those animals that benefit from hot, thin, pure blood are superior both with respect to deliberative reasoning and with respect to the moral virtue of courage.
The line of reasoning behind this is that not only will thinner monitors free up desk space, they will also change the industry standard.
