deductive
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It became active during inductive reasoning, but it did not appear to participate in deductive reasoning.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Mystifying, that is, until Kanbei offers his insight and Murashige makes a few deductive leaps, at which point he solves the crime like a Japanese Poirot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
Arm in arm with this, and less discussed, is the death of deductive logic, the ability to understand cause and effect by composing simple conditional arguments with an antecedent and a consequent.
From Salon ● Mar. 13, 2025
Not through any kind of intuition or deductive superpower, mind you.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025
But the tension was felt everywhere; it spilled over into our studies, and arguments over Milton, Talleyrand or deductive procedures in logic were often clear substitutes for the outlawed fistfights over Zionism.
From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok
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