Usually means: Reasoning from general to specific.
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  1. deductive: Merriam-Webster
  2. deductive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. deductive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. deductive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. deductive: Vocabulary.com
  6. Deductive, deductive: Wordnik
  7. deductive: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. deductive: Wiktionary
  9. deductive: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Deductive, deductive: Dictionary.com
  11. Deductive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Deductive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. deductive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. deductive: Rhymezone
  15. Deductive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. deductive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. deductive: FreeDictionary.org
  18. deductive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. deductive: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. deductive: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. deductive: Glossary of research economics
  2. deductive: Legal dictionary
  3. deductive: Financial dictionary

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  1. deductive: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (deductive)

▸ adjective:  Of, pertaining to, or based on deduction (process of reasoning).
▸ adjective:  (logic) Based on inferences from general principles.

Similar:
inferential, illative, deducible, deductivistic, deductory, deducive, inductive, derivational, abductive, eductive, more...

Opposite:
inductive, abductive, non-deductive

Types:
modus ponens, modus tollens, more...

Phrases:
deductive reasoning, deductive method, deductive logic, deductive argument, deductive inference, more...

Adjectives:
inductive, more, hypothetico, second, eminently, logic, less, main, mechanical, complete, inherently

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Similar:
inferential, illative, deducible, deductivistic, deductory, deducive, inductive, derivational, abductive, eductive, more...

Opposite:
inductive, abductive, non-deductive

Types:
modus ponens, modus tollens, more...

Phrases:
deductive reasoning, deductive method, deductive logic, deductive argument, deductive inference, deductive database, deductive closure, deductive reason, deductive tableau, hypothetico deductive, more...

Adjectives:
inductive, more, hypothetico, second, eminently, logic, less, main, mechanical, complete, inherently

Colors:
    charcoal,     slate gray,     steel blue,     midnight blue,     indigo, more...



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