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11deductive — adjective using the knowledge that you have to make a judgment about a fact or situation: deductive reasoning …
12deductive — UK [dɪˈdʌktɪv] / US adjective considering carefully the information or evidence that you have in order to find the solution to a question or problem deductive reasoning …
13deductive — deduction ► NOUN 1) the action of deducting. 2) an amount that is or may be deducted. 3) the inference of particular instances by reference to a general law or principle. Often contrasted with INDUCTION(Cf. ↑induction). DERIVATIVES deductive… …
14Deductive reasoning — Deductive reasoning, also called deductive logic, is reasoning which constructs or evaluates deductive arguments. Deductive arguments are attempts to show that a conclusion necessarily follows from a set of premises or hypotheses. A deductive… …
15Deductive database — It is a database system which can make deductions (i.e.: conclude additional facts) based on rules and facts stored in the (deductive) database. Datalog is the language typically used to specify facts, rules and queries in deductive databases.… …
16Deductive fallacy — A deductive fallacy is defined as a deductive argument that is invalid. The argument itself could have true premises, but still have a false conclusion.[1] Thus, a deductive fallacy is a fallacy where deduction goes wrong, and is no longer a… …
17Deductive system — A deductive system (also called a deductive apparatus of a formal system) consists of the axioms (or axiom schemata) and rules of inference that can be used to derive the theorems of the system.[1] Such a deductive system is intended to preserve… …
18Deductive-nomological model — The deductive nomological model (or D N model) is a formalized[citation needed] view of scientific explanation in natural language. It characterizes scientific explanations primarily as deductive arguments with at least one natural law statement… …
19Deductive mood — The deductive mood is an epistemic grammatical mood that indicates that the truth of the statement was deduced from other information, rather than being directly known.[1] In English, deductive mood is often indicated by the word must, which is… …
20Deductive-nomological — The deductive nomological (or D N) model is a formalized view of scientific explanation in natural language. It characterizes scientific explanations primarily as deductive arguments with at least one natural law statement among its premises.… …
