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

It’s classic deductive detective work meets Japanese comfort fare.

From Salon

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

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

Not through any kind of intuition or deductive superpower, mind you.

From Los Angeles Times