Deductive meaning

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The definition of deductive is something related to using principles of logic to figure something out.

An example of deductive reasoning is if someone says that they went to their car and now they have arrived and you are able to logically determine from this that the person went in their car to their destination.

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Of or based on deduction.
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Involving or using deduction in reasoning.
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Of, pertaining to, or based on deduction.
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(logic) Based on inferences from general principles.
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Sentence Examples

  • For De Maillet not only has a definite conception of the plasticity of living things, and of the production of existing species by the modification of their predecessors, but he clearly apprehends the cardinal maxim of modern geological science, that the explanation of the structure of the globe is to be sought in the deductive application to geological phenomena of the principles established inductively by the study of the present course of nature.

  • Hence, without his saying it in so many words, Aristotle's logic perforce became a logic of deductive reasoning, or syllogism.

  • He lectured on logic, deductive and inductive, systematic psychology and ethical theory.

  • If their view is correct, the theory appears to be a remarkable example of deductive reasoning.

  • On the whole, then, analogical, inductive and deductive inferences are not the same but three similar and closely connected processes.

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