deductive
Example Sentences
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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 • Jan. 21, 2026
Not through any kind of intuition or deductive superpower, mind you.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 9, 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
The pangram from yesterday’s Spelling Bee was deductive.
From New York Times • May 25, 2023
Aristotle believed that knowledge, including natural philosophy, should be fundamentally deductive in character.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
