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
May we infer deductively that they have been attained because of the increase of speculative transactions?
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 5 "Cosway" to "Coucy" by Various
Thus Condorcet undertook to construct deductively all precepts of healthy morality by starting from the truth that man is a sentient and reasonable being.
From Anarchism and Socialism by Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov
