deductive

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For her part, Patience tells Bea, “Your deductive leaps of logic can be haphazard and your notes are cursory,” but she admires her clearance rate, the best in the country.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2025

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

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

I decided to use some of Mr. Hartsfield’s deductive reasoning.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam