DEDUCTIVE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Involving inferences from general principles

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

deducible (capable of being deduced)

illative (expressing or preceding an inference)

illative; inferential (resembling or dependent on or arrived at by inference)

inferential (of reasoning; proceeding from general premisses to a necessary and specific conclusion)

Also:

analytic; analytical (of a proposition that is necessarily true independent of fact or experience)

a priori (involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact)

Antonym:

inductive (of reasoning; proceeding from particular facts to a general conclusion)

Derivation:

deduce (reason by deduction; establish by deduction)

deduce (conclude by reasoning; in logic)

Meaning:

Relating to logical deduction

Example:

deductive reasoning

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

deduction (reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect))

Derivation:

deduce (reason by deduction; establish by deduction)

deduce (conclude by reasoning; in logic)