deductive reasoning
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- noun
- /dɪˈdʌktɪv ˈrizənɪŋ/
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razonamiento deductivo
- In mathematics, deductive reasoning helps students derive specific formulas from general theorems.
- inductive and deductive reasoning
- deductive reasoning and critical thinking
And I think it's so important to learn the deductive reasoning skills.
- And I think it's so important to learn the deductive reasoning skills.
- You know, in a small tangent, you've talked about the value of thinking of deductive reasoning in science versus large data collection.
- Mathematicians care about deductive reasoning, and physicists or physics in general, we care less about that.
- What I'm really interested in is the fact that we do engage in deductive reasoning based on stereotypes.
- and we use our imagination and our deductive reasoning. I want this or that, not this. Not that. Pretty easy, right?
- We are engaging in deductive reasoning we and that's the way a lot of science works, at least in part of it, right?
Examples
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In unstructured or complex situations, the use of circumstantial evidence and deductive reasoning may be necessary.
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Because if we're really using our noggins and our deductive reasoning, what we need to do is--
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And I think it's so important to learn the deductive reasoning skills.
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Nice bit of deductive reasoning.
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It's based on deductive reasoning from first principles.
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Not a good deductive reasoning pattern, right?
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Just a little deductive reasoning based on your son's answer to my question in my class.
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Well, it teaches us simple deductive reasoning.
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What ties them together is the use of deductive reasoning to find the answers to questions.
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I had spent the night thinking, or, as we say in the biz, engaged in deductive reasoning.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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A conclusion reached by using reasoning and evidence
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A way of thinking that moves from general rules to specific cases
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'deductive' specifies the type of reasoning as moving from general principles to particular conclusions, and 'reasoning' is the act of logical thinking. This composition matches common cross-linguistic patterns, so a B1 learner who knows both constituent words would be able to infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Deductive reasoning comes from the simple idea of using a general rule to decide about one case: deductive means starting from a general rule and reasoning means the thinking that follows. Imagine the rule 'All birds have wings' and you meet a robin, so you know it has wings. That is why the phrase means 'to move from the general to the particular'.