natural deduction

British  

noun

1. a system of formal logic that has no axioms but permits the assumption of premises of an argument. Such a system uses sequents to record which assumptions are operative at any stage Compare axiomatic

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natural deduction

What seemed like a natural deduction in the West -- behaving like a group must mean a suppression of the self -- was a leap in logic in Japan.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2011

A natural deduction from this was that one person or few persons must own many times 40 shares to bring the average up.

From Time Magazine Archive

If somebody says: "A rickety cradle may mean a rickety baby," the natural deduction, one would think, would be to give the people a good cradle, or give them money enough to buy one.

From Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

We expect to hear so, as the natural deduction from John’s premises.

From Memories of Bethany by John R. (John Ross) Macduff

This would be the natural deduction to draw from the premise of evolution.

From The Saint by William Roscoe Thayer