deductivede‧duc‧tive /dɪˈdʌktɪv/ adjective 
- An engaging blend of poetic characterization and deductive reasoning, it was delivered for the most part in a weary monotone.
- Concrete operational children, lacking fully developed deductive reasoning about hypothetical situations, can not solve problems in this form.
- For those who like solving murder mysteries, however, this is one that will challenge your deductive abilities.
- In order to handle deductive mode explanations, children require various cognitive and linguistic abilities.
- The results for both tasks indicated that deductive markers were frequently omitted by all age groups, including the adults.
- There were, said the professor, two kinds of science, inductive and deductive.
- They have to be able to distinguish between the empirical and deductive modes.
- This supplements the consideration of deductive and logical abilities measured by the traditional convergent questions for which there are unique correct answers.
NOUN► reasoning· This process is in many ways analogous to deductive reasoning.· Even so the qualification has been imposed by deductive reasoning.· It results from a process of logical, deductive reasoning, unsullied by personal feelings or practicalities.· Before doing so, a little will be said of the character of logic and deductive reasoning.· Consider simple example of the power of deductive reasoning in ethics.· The kind of reasoning involved in derivations of this kind is called deductive reasoning.· A study of deductive reasoning constitutes the discipline of logic.
adjectivededucibledeductivenoundeductionverbdeduce
deductive reasoning