deductive
adjective
based on deduction from accepted premises, as in
deductively
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a word derived from
deductive.
Example Sentences
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Support can happen in many ways: beliefs can deductively entail one another, they can inductively entail one another, and they can cohere by explaining one another.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Applying Aristotelian logic to his astronomical calculations, he deductively reasoned all celestial bodies orbited around the Earth, which was located at the center of the universe.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Erasmo Delgado proceeded to unravel deductively The Mystery of the Bathroom Bomb.
From Time Magazine Archive
This cause was afterward ascertained, deductively, to be the rarefaction of the air, occasioned by the increase of temperature as the day advances.
From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive by John Stuart Mill
It is worth noting, however, that in England mechanics has always been taught as an experimental science, while on the Continent it has been expanded deductively, as a development of a priori principles.
From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode
