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Deductive reasoning   /dɪdˈəktəv rˈizənɪŋ/   Listen
Deductive reasoning

noun
1.
Reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect).  Synonyms: deduction, synthesis.





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"Deductive reasoning" Quotes from Famous Books



... up the knowledge he acquires. He is taught elementary mathematics, that he may understand all those relations of number and form, upon which the transactions of men, associated in complicated societies, are built, and that he may have some practice in deductive reasoning. ...
— Discourses - Biological and Geological Essays • Thomas H. Huxley
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... three kinds of suicide—the first is only the last and acute stage of a long illness, and this kind belongs distinctly to pathology; the second is the suicide of despair; and the third the suicide based on logical argument. Despair and deductive reasoning had brought Lucien to this pass, but both varieties are curable; it is only the pathological suicide that is inevitable. Not infrequently you find all three causes combined, as in the ...
— Eve and David • Honore de Balzac
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Words linked to "Deductive reasoning" :   synthesis, reasoning, deduction, logical thinking, abstract thought, syllogism


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