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DEDUCTIVE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Involving inferences from general principles
Classified under:
Similar:
deducible (capable of being deduced)
illative (expressing or preceding an inference)
illative; inferential (resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference)
inferential (of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion)
Also:
analytic; analytical (of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience)
a priori (involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact)
Antonym:
inductive (of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion)
Derivation:
deduce (reason by deduction; establish by deduction)
deduce (conclude by reasoning; in logic)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Relating to logical deduction
Example:
deductive reasoning
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
deduction (reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect))
Derivation:
deduce (reason by deduction; establish by deduction)
deduce (conclude by reasoning; in logic)
