deductive reasoning. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
deductive inconsistency so defined determines one kind of incoherence in belief, which I refer to as deductive incoherence. From Wordnik.com. [Bayesian Epistemology] Reference
I second the motion, i watch all of them and then i decipher the bs, its called deductive reasoning!. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
AKT: No matter whatever way you put it, an inconsistent theory predicts anything, aka deductive. From Wordnik.com. [Technology Review RSS Feeds] Reference
Therefore, using our trusty friend, aka deductive reasoning, evolution MUST be considered as valid scientific fact. From Wordnik.com. [Our Scientific Output - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
This person introduced, or at all events propagated what was termed the deductive or a priori mode of investigation. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4] Reference
This person introduced, or at all events propagated, what was termed the deductive or a priori mode of investigation. From Wordnik.com. [Mellonta Tauta] Reference
Using the kind of deductive powers possessed only by people in low-rent horror movies. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Verdict] Reference
I'll post the winner's name and some of the good "deductive" guesses at the end of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Uni Watch] Reference
A is called the deductive closure of A. From Wordnik.com. [Algebra] Reference
This process is known as deductive reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism] Reference
One's deductive faculty had to be drawn upon largely. From Wordnik.com. [With The Immortal Seventh Division] Reference
These two animals have mud-lump-sharp deductive powers. From Wordnik.com. [Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: Tongue Digging] Reference
Sometimes the method was inductive and sometimes deductive. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
As I often say of my deductive faculties -- think -- shmink!. From Wordnik.com. [The Night of the Long Knives] Reference
The following are given as further examples of deductive processes. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference
“For a man of my highly developed deductive powers …” I began. From Wordnik.com. [The Case Of The Limehouse Golem] Reference
It was by this deductive elaboration that the planet Neptune was discovered. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
It is as logical, however, and as irrevocable, as tho produced by deductive reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [On the Firing Line in Education] Reference
For this reason deductive logic has been termed the logic of consistency, not of truth. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Find illustrations of argument by example, argument by elimination, deductive argument. From Wordnik.com. [Teachers' Outlines for Studies in English Based on the Requirements for Admission to College] Reference
But the consideration of the matter is outside the sphere of formal or deductive Logic. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
Reasoning is of two forms, deductive, or syllogistic, reasoning, and inductive reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference
In deductive inference we never do more than vary the form of the truth from which we started. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
For somehow, it never got out of his deductive head that some day she would learn to love him. From Wordnik.com. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference
In all cases of deductive elaboration, we go through what might be called the If-Then process. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
To anyone with an ounce of critical thinking and deductive reasoning skills the scenario is clear here. From Wordnik.com. [Bryan Young: Corporate Citizenship -- The Most Dangerous Game] Reference
Logicians generally distinguish between two branches of their science, inductive and deductive reasoning. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
If it be urged that these are in a degree deductive conclusions, let them be submitted to the test of fact. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Finally, as already noted, the application of an ordinary recitation frequently involves deductive processes. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference
The process by which real truth, which is other than deductive, is arrived at 'a priori 'is known as Intuition. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
On the syllogism in its various forms deductive logic has built up an imposing structure of rules and conclusions. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
The detective who habitually used the deductive method would spend a great deal of his time exploring blind alleys. From Wordnik.com. [The Grell Mystery] Reference
This careful, deductive search produced one candidate who had just finished building Stanford back to an 8-4 season. From Wordnik.com. [Is It Easy Being Green?] Reference
"You see I'm going to imbibe my information by the deductive rather than the excavative process," he added with a laugh. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference
Chapter XV, that deductive reasoning takes place normally only when the mind is faced with a difficulty which demands solution. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference
It is based upon the broadest induction, and it is verified by the most constant, regular, and universal of deductive processes. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of Arguments] Reference
It is not, however, with logic as a whole that we are here concerned, but only with deductive logic, which may be defined as The. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
The syllogism is merely a form into which our deductive inferences may be thrown for the sake of exhibiting their conclusiveness. From Wordnik.com. [Deductive Logic] Reference
On the other hand, however, it has been seen that both deductive and inductive reasoning follow to some degree a systematic form. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Normal School Manuals: Science of Education] Reference
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