| Pronunciation: | | di'duktiv
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| Matching Terms: | | deductive database, deductive nomological explanation, deductive reasoning, deductive tableau, deductively
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- [adj] involving inferences from general principles
- [adj] relating to logical deduction; "deductive reasoning"
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| | Synonyms: | | deducible, illative, inferential |
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| | Antonyms: | | inductive |
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| | See Also: | | a priori, analytic, analytical |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \De*duct"ive\, a. [Cf. L. deductivus derivative.]
Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from
premises; deducible.
All knowledge of causes is deductive. --Glanvill.
Notions and ideas . . . used in a deductive process.
--Whewell.
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| | Related Terms: | | a fortiori, a posteriori, a priori, ablative, academic, analytic, categorical, conditional, conjectural, deducible, derivable, dialectic, discursive, dogmatic, enthymematic, epagogic, erosive, hypothetical, illative, inductive, inferential, maieutic, purported, putative, ratiocinative, reasoned, reductive, soritical, speculative, subtractive, supposed, syllogistic, synthetic, theoretical |
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