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单词 deductive
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Definition of deductive in English:

deductive

adjective dɪˈdʌktɪvdəˈdəktɪv
  • Characterized by or based on the inference of particular instances from a general law.

    deductive reasoning
    I used my deductive powers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The distinction between deductive and inductive validity goes back to Aristotle.
    • He saw mathematics as providing the most fundamental of all ideas and the deductive reasoning of mathematics was seen as the ideal way of achieving knowledge.
    • Our physical science is not a deductive system, but a series of generalizations based in observation of finite modes.
    • The deductive and inductive procedures, applied to the sentences, produce the inferences.
    • This knowledge is a balanced assessment, since it is based on both deductive or objective and inductive or empathic reasoning.
    • First, modern mathematical methods were to be represented in formal deductive systems.
    • According to Goodman, we formulate rules of deductive logic by taking our cue from intuitively valid deductive inferences.
    • The key thing about is that it is not, or at least not obviously, an instance of some general deductive or probabilistic principle.
    • All that we require is some general and less than deductive understanding of how economic properties and relations might be underlain by physical ones.
    • Still, Adams's result vindicates deductive reasoning from uncertain premises, provided that they are not too uncertain, and there are not too many of them.
    • These insights are said to be made a priori and Austrian reasoning is thus deductive, not inductive, or empirical.
    • Although empiricists also used deductive reasoning, they put a greater emphasis on the inductive method championed by fellow British countryman Francis Bacon.
    • These are not specific geometrical properties but rather general assumptions which allow mathematics to proceed as a deductive science.
    • The deductive inferences, however, are all valid.
    • That is a valid deductive argument against materialism, and its premises are hard to deny.
    • Neither deductive nor inductive reasoning can account for the way in which we immediately see that such principles are true.
    • If inductive inference can teach us something new, in opposition to deductive inference, this is because it is not a tautology.
    • I think he is attacking systematic philosophies and the idea of deductive logic.
    • Mathematics in its widest signification is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
    • Aristotle was not primarily a mathematician but made important contributions by systematising deductive logic.
    Synonyms
    reasoned, well reasoned, rational, sound, cogent, well thought out, valid

Derivatives

  • deductively

  • adverb dɪˈdʌktɪvlidəˈdəktɪvli
    • Assuming that the account is correct, to know that an inference is deductively valid is to know that there are no situations in which the premisses are true and the conclusion is not.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He could not find deductively a satisfactory relationship between rates of interest and savings levels.
      • Other questions can be answered deductively, by referring to established rules; this is the case, for example, with mathematics, grammar and formal logic.
      • The final proofs of logic and mathematics flow deductively from stated premises and achieve certainty only because they are not about the empirical world.
      • But an argument is deductively valid if it is impossible for all its premises to be true and its conclusion false.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin deductivus, from deduct- 'deduced', from the verb deducere (see deduce).

 
 

Definition of deductive in US English:

deductive

adjectivedəˈdəktɪvdəˈdəktiv
  • Characterized by or based on the inference of particular instances from a general law.

    deductive reasoning
    I used my deductive powers
    Example sentencesExamples
    • These insights are said to be made a priori and Austrian reasoning is thus deductive, not inductive, or empirical.
    • Mathematics in its widest signification is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning.
    • Still, Adams's result vindicates deductive reasoning from uncertain premises, provided that they are not too uncertain, and there are not too many of them.
    • That is a valid deductive argument against materialism, and its premises are hard to deny.
    • First, modern mathematical methods were to be represented in formal deductive systems.
    • Aristotle was not primarily a mathematician but made important contributions by systematising deductive logic.
    • All that we require is some general and less than deductive understanding of how economic properties and relations might be underlain by physical ones.
    • Neither deductive nor inductive reasoning can account for the way in which we immediately see that such principles are true.
    • Our physical science is not a deductive system, but a series of generalizations based in observation of finite modes.
    • I think he is attacking systematic philosophies and the idea of deductive logic.
    • The deductive and inductive procedures, applied to the sentences, produce the inferences.
    • If inductive inference can teach us something new, in opposition to deductive inference, this is because it is not a tautology.
    • The distinction between deductive and inductive validity goes back to Aristotle.
    • The key thing about is that it is not, or at least not obviously, an instance of some general deductive or probabilistic principle.
    • The deductive inferences, however, are all valid.
    • According to Goodman, we formulate rules of deductive logic by taking our cue from intuitively valid deductive inferences.
    • Although empiricists also used deductive reasoning, they put a greater emphasis on the inductive method championed by fellow British countryman Francis Bacon.
    • These are not specific geometrical properties but rather general assumptions which allow mathematics to proceed as a deductive science.
    • He saw mathematics as providing the most fundamental of all ideas and the deductive reasoning of mathematics was seen as the ideal way of achieving knowledge.
    • This knowledge is a balanced assessment, since it is based on both deductive or objective and inductive or empathic reasoning.
    Synonyms
    reasoned, well reasoned, rational, sound, cogent, well thought out, valid

Origin

Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin deductivus, from deduct- ‘deduced’, from the verb deducere (see deduce).

 
 
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