deductively

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de·duc·tive

(dĭ-dŭk′tĭv)

adj.

1. Of or based on deduction.

2. Involving or using deduction in reasoning.

de·duc′tive·ly adv.

Translations

deductively

[dɪˈdʌktɪvlɪ] adv → deduttivamente

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Certainly the religious and moral ideas of the Dodsons and Tullivers were of too specific a kind to be arrived at deductively, from the statement that they were part of the Protestant population of Great Britain.

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"The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity.

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Now anyone who's reading deductively would guess that it was not salad that the owner was going to force down poor Winston's gullet.

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It explains how to develop, organize, and synthesize information and analytic results, so that different sections of the writing are connected; present the results of an analysis as persuasively as possible; write deductively, with strong topic sentences and precise wording; write focused, unified, and coherent paragraphs and sentences; choose words that communicate precisely and directly; and develop effective graphics.

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No less than the creator of the deductively inclined Sherlock Holmes was taken in by this gimmickry; Oursler includes the images of sprites that Arthur Conan Doyle professed to be real in his book The Coming of the Fairies.

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To generalize, a mathematical sentence can perform the function of helping us deductively organize our thoughts about the concrete world.