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Many are deductive in reasoning, using logic to ask, challenge, probe, and analyze.
THE LETTER IN WHICH LINCOLN DEBATED THE MORALITY OF SLAVERY WITH HIMSELFRONALD C. WHITEJUNE 10, 2021TIMEOf inductive and deductive, the inductive 140 proofs generally go first.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERGeneral truths and their application by deductive arguments usually stand late in the brief.
ENGLISH: COMPOSITION AND LITERATUREW. F. (WILLIAM FRANKLIN) WEBSTERAccording to the foregoing remarks, hypotheses are invented to enable the Deductive Method to be earlier applied to phenomena.
A SYSTEM OF LOGIC: RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVEJOHN STUART MILLBut, further, this reasoning by counters is only suitable to a very limited portion even of our deductive processes.
A SYSTEM OF LOGIC: RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVEJOHN STUART MILLIn spite of his allegiance to "tradition," he generally prefers deductive to inductive reasoning.
THE LIFE OF MAZZINIBOLTON KINGAnd as will be shown presently, nothing of a really scientific character is here possible, except by the inverse deductive method.
A SYSTEM OF LOGIC: RATIOCINATIVE AND INDUCTIVEJOHN STUART MILLBut deductive logic is the creation of Aristotle; and it was the authority of Aristotle that Bacon sought to subvert.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME VIJOHN LORDHis Studies in Deductive Logic, consisting mainly of exercises and problems for the use of students, was published in 1880.
ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, 11TH EDITION, VOLUME 15, SLICE 4VARIOUSHe was clearly not very taken with the deductive powers of Mr. Headland, and he showed it very plainly.
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