Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By deduction; in consequence of a general principle.
- By diduction or separation; inferentially.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By deduction; by way of inference; by consequence.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
deductive manner; usingdeduction
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Examples
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He should know that his inference that the civil rights leaders does not follow deductively from the evidence.
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Its elementary counterpart is the theorem that the equational theories on a free algebra F (V), defined as the deductively closed sets of equations that use variables from V, are exactly its substitutive congruences.
Algebra Pratt, Vaughan 2007
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By that term, I meant looking deductively, in totality, and then determining means for further analysis and exploration.
Brian D. Cohen: Education and the Visual Arts Brian D. Cohen 2011
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By that term, I meant looking deductively, in totality, and then determining means for further analysis and exploration.
Brian D. Cohen: Education and the Visual Arts Brian D. Cohen 2011
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By that term, I meant looking deductively, in totality, and then determining means for further analysis and exploration.
Brian D. Cohen: Education and the Visual Arts Brian D. Cohen 2011
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By that term, I meant looking deductively, in totality, and then determining means for further analysis and exploration.
Brian D. Cohen: Education and the Visual Arts Brian D. Cohen 2011
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But that is also quite different from saying that formalistic-deductively mathematically abstract economic theory is not theory, unless it is accompanied by appropriate general explanations or discussions of potential real world applications.
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By that term, I meant looking deductively, in totality, and then determining means for further analysis and exploration.
Brian D. Cohen: Education and the Visual Arts Brian D. Cohen 2011
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From this philosophical standpoint it follows deductively that from the beginning no intelligent purpose guided evolution.
Blast From the Past 2010
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By that term, I meant looking deductively, in totality, and then determining means for further analysis and exploration.
Brian D. Cohen: Education and the Visual Arts Brian D. Cohen 2011
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