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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

The laws of the formation of character cannot be ascertained by observation and experiment 449 4. —but must be studied deductively 454 5.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart

This cause was afterwards 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 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart