Adjective : deductive argument; deductive reasoning. From Dictionary.com.
He should know that his inference that the civil rights leaders does not follow deductively from the evidence. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Bloggers think Repubs should associate with Tea Party. Disagree on whether independent run would help Crist] Reference
In evolutionary terms, the argument is deductively valid. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Vacuity of ID: Evolution hypothesis requires that the genome be a "multiple independent collection of selectable genes" - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
In this simple form, this is a deductively valid argument. From Wordnik.com. [Multiple Realizability] Reference
Many question-begging arguments are even deductively valid. From Wordnik.com. [What’s really wrong with relativism?] Reference
Again, this isn't certain; the argument is not deductively valid. From Wordnik.com. [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference
` The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 1: My Eagle] Reference
This is just the Humean point that induction is not deductively valid. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Realism] Reference
Heck number theory is 100% deductively proven, and its still called a theory. From Wordnik.com. [Waldo Jaquith - Connect the dots.] Reference
Think like a Misesian (deductively), but write like a Hayekian (inductively). From Wordnik.com. [The Austrian Economists:] Reference
I shall examine the subject inductively and deductively, the facts and the causes. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
However, this theory is deductively weak and does not prove certain generalisations. From Wordnik.com. [Axiomatic Theories of Truth] Reference
Collection is the inductive process which Division follows and confirms deductively. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Grasping word meanings and thinking deductively are two names for the same phenomenon. From Wordnik.com. [The Muse in the Machine] Reference
Can our confidence that these two conditions obtain also be grounded purely deductively?. From Wordnik.com. [Non-Deductive Methods in Mathematics] Reference
That is, they seem to have been able to think systematically, deductively, and inductively. From Wordnik.com. [The General Managers] Reference
It is ascertained deductively, and therefore measurement is not involved, and is never employed. From Wordnik.com. [Essays Towards a Theory of Knowledge] Reference
Within the new model, dark-matter is deductively shown to be migrating mini and micro black-holes (MBH). From Wordnik.com. [What’s the (Dark) Matter?] Reference
He had never thought deductively before and perhaps his effort to follow the leaf was not thought - born. From Wordnik.com. [More Than Human]
So one would expect that an argument is deducible, or deductively valid, only if it is semantically valid. From Wordnik.com. [Classical Logic] Reference
Therefore, x is H2O. is necessarily truth preserving, but it seems a long way from being deductively valid. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Consequence] Reference
Doctrine develops only deductively, not inductively hence, doctrine develops only in a non-ampliative manner. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-12-01] Reference
But given a particular argument, is the question as to whether it is deductively valid an all-or-nothing affair?. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Consequence] Reference
An equational theory is a deductively closed set of equations, equivalently the set of all consequences of some set. From Wordnik.com. [Algebra] Reference
And, secondly, are the beliefs we form directly from the results of computer computations deductively grounded beliefs?. From Wordnik.com. [Non-Deductive Methods in Mathematics] Reference
Indeed, in the second example, the fact that the probability of N being prime is .99 is established purely deductively. From Wordnik.com. [Non-Deductive Methods in Mathematics] Reference
The method of literary economics is to reason clearly and deductively in English about the behavior of economic agents. From Wordnik.com. [Economics needs a divorce « Isegoria] Reference
Socrates is a rational animal, capable of thoughts, i.e., acts of predication that carry deductively valid consequences. From Wordnik.com. [An Argument from Realism Against Naturalism about Human Beings] Reference
Another doubt about knowing elusive claims deductively via mundane claims is that this maneuver is improperly ampliative. From Wordnik.com. [The Epistemic Closure Principle] Reference
From this philosophical standpoint it follows deductively that from the beginning no intelligent purpose guided evolution. From Wordnik.com. [Blast From the Past] Reference
In general, it seems hard to specify a consistent set of type-free T-sentences that is both, natural and deductively strong. From Wordnik.com. [Axiomatic Theories of Truth] Reference
Her bright line isn't drawn deductively, but it's a much brighter line than those that have been drawn by any of her critics. From Wordnik.com. [Reference
It would seem most sensible to derive standards deductively from cases at hand instead of applying old rules to novel conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Nathan Gardels: Welcome to the Geo-Information Age] Reference
Clearly, such logically loose principles would be useless in any attempt to generate a deductively tight “practical syllogism.”. From Wordnik.com. [Moral Reasoning] Reference
Assume for sake of argument that the computer proof in question is deductively correct but is also unsurveyable in the above sense. From Wordnik.com. [Non-Deductive Methods in Mathematics] Reference
Reasoning deductively and reading between the lines in the cable summaries, Zenawi appears angry, frustrated, defensive and defiant. From Wordnik.com. [Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: "So What!"] Reference
Then one develops the theory of tides deductively from that law and information concerning the positions and motions of the moon and sun. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Economics] Reference
You are then able, through your positronics, to reason deductively by weighing, again through analog, incoming data against existing data. From Wordnik.com. [Suspicion]
Still, many have thought that (4) is not deductively valid, despite its credentials as truth-preserving on analytic or conceptual grounds. From Wordnik.com. [Logical Consequence] Reference
So let n be a natural number, and assume that the theorem holds for any argument established as deductively valid with fewer than n steps. From Wordnik.com. [Classical Logic] Reference
This is in contrast to classical (first-order) logic, whose inferences, being deductively valid, can never be "undone" by new information. From Wordnik.com. [Non-monotonic Logic] Reference
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