deductive
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It became active during inductive reasoning, but it did not appear to participate in deductive reasoning.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Mystifying, that is, until Kanbei offers his insight and Murashige makes a few deductive leaps, at which point he solves the crime like a Japanese Poirot.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
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
About the difference between deductive and inductive reasoning and how Sir Francis Bacon of the peculiar name got it right.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
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