deductive

• “Deductive inconsistency so defined determines one kind of incoherence in belief, which I refer to as deductive incoherence.”

  Bayesian Epistemology

• “And I don't think Fido or neurons have concepts and hence my view that they are not the sorts of thing that engage in deductive inference.”

  Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID

• “Now the method which was almost exclusively employed until Bacon's time is commonly called the deductive method; that is, some principle or premise was assumed to be true, and reasoning was made from this assumption.”

  Beacon Lights of History

• “I second the motion, i watch all of them and then i decipher the bs, its called deductive reasoning!”

  Propeller Most Popular Stories

• “There are two ways that the laws of deductive logic have been thought to provide rational constraints on belief: (1) Synchronically, the laws of deductive logic can be used to define the notion of deductive consistency and inconsistency.”

  Bayesian Epistemology

• “Those who propound the deductivist stance argue that it eliminates the need to make the sometimes difficult decision whether a particular argument should be classified as deductive or inductive, that it greatly simplifies the structure of informal logic, and that it is useful to reconstruct the assumptions it recognizes as implicit premises (see Groarke [1999]).”

  Informal Logic

• “Therefore, using our trusty friend, aka deductive reasoning, evolution MUST be considered as valid scientific fact.”

  Our Scientific Output - The Panda's Thumb

• “The constraint of necessity is not sufficient to settle the notion of deductive validity, for the notion of necessity may also be fleshed out in a number of ways.”

  Logical Consequence

• “We are more sure of Truth by the so-called deductive than by the so-called inductive ladder, and it was not without meaning that she was represented as dwelling at the bottom of a well, for she is more surely reached by descending to her abode from the so-called abstract, than by climbing with our feet on the slippery concrete.”

  The Education of American Girls

• “This so-called deductive method of Aristotle assumed as a starting-point some general of principle as a premise or hypothesis and thence proceeded, by logical reasoning, to deduce concrete applications or consequences.”

  A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.

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