deductive
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Then again, those New Year’s Eve revelers may have had their powers of basic detection and deductive reasoning sharpened by being led astray by AI slop.
From Salon • Jan. 21, 2026
Not through any kind of intuition or deductive superpower, mind you.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 2025
A mathematician might point to a deductive argument, a scientist to experiments, and a lawyer to courtroom evidence and testimony.
From Scientific American • Jul. 1, 2023
Holcomb, as we’ve seen, can’t figure out how Brooks’s grift operated, so he turns to Perry, whose deductive mind he recognizes as superior to his own, for help.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2023
There is a delicious irony in this because Hobbes believed factual knowledge was a truly inferior kind of knowledge, science consisting solely of deductive knowledge.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing deductive
The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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Divergent
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