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
Instead of receiving science through set experiments with known outcomes, students should learn to apply deductive and inductive reasoning to weigh information before blindly accepting results.
From Scientific American • Aug. 16, 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 was so pleased with this piece of deductive thinking that I nearly forgot to get out when the train stopped.
From "The London Eye Mystery" by Siobhan Dowd
Vocabulary lists containing deductive
The AP English Exam: Rhetorical and Literary Terms 1
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