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Definition of Deductive
1. Adjective. Relating to logical deduction. "Deductive reasoning"
2. Adjective. Involving inferences from general principles.
Similar to: Deducible, Illative, Illative, Inferential, Inferential
Derivative terms: Deduce, Deduce
Antonyms: Inductive
Definition of Deductive
1. a. Of or pertaining to deduction; capable of being deduced from premises; deducible.
Definition of Deductive
1. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or based on deduction. ¹
2. Adjective. (logic) Based on inferences from general principles. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Deductive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deductive
Literary usage of Deductive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Argumentation and Debating by William Trufant Foster (1917)
"A deductive argument has the fundamental requisites of effectiveness if it
satisfies three ... Thus we see that the difficulty in deductive argument lies in ..."
2. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton (1860)
"Of these, taking the former — the deductive — first into consideration, I was
occupied, ... These, when proximately applied to the two forms of deductive ..."
3. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1866)
"This method can only be one of two kinds ; it must be either inductive, or deductive.
Each of these belongs to a different form of civilization, ..."
4. The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century by Alfred William Benn (1906)
"RATIONALISM IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY century; and Macaulay held up the utilitarian
philosophy to ridicule precisely on the ground of its deductive ..."
5. A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of by John Stuart Mill (1906)
"The problem of the deductive Method is to find the law of an effect from the laws
of the different ten- market." But this experiment would be quite ..."
6. The Educative Process by William Chandler Bagley (1905)
"Neither of these classes is necessarily exclusive of the other; that is, in one
and the same lesson, one may use both inductive and deductive processes. ..."
7. The Teaching of Geography by William James Sutherland (1909)
"A deductive lesson presupposes the possession of general notions or principles,
for without their use a deductive procedure is impossible. ..."
8. Elements of Logic: Together with an Introductory View of Philosophy in by Henry Philip Tappan (1856)
"APPLICATION OF THE deductive FORMULA. THE greater part of human reasoning is of
the deductive kind. The number of first principles and general truths is ..."
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