deductive argument
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deductive
adjective
uk/dɪˈdʌk.tɪv/us/dɪˈdʌk.t̬ɪv/
reaching an answer or a decision by thinking carefully about the ...
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argument
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɑːɡ.jə.mənt/us/ˈɑːrɡ.jə.mənt/
a disagreement, or the process ...
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An omniscient being would find every validdeductiveargumentto be such.
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What is worth saving is the value of an explicitdeductiveargumentwith empirical referents.
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What we have here is an inference to the best explanation, not a validdeductiveargument.
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Foster makes clear that this cannot be a validdeductiveargument, but that this does not work as an inductive argument either.
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This demand is completely contrived and has the unwanted consequence that every validdeductiveargument, when its premises are fully understood, can rightly be charged with begging the question.
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To the contrary, we demonstrate bydeductiveargumentthe existence of situations where actors may 'safely' run candidates in excess of the number that can win office.
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But there is no sounddeductiveargumentfor induction, and to ask for an inductive argument to justify induction would be to beg the question.
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The ambiguous use of a term in adeductiveargumentmay be an instance of the fallacy of four terms.
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Adeductiveargumentasserts that the truth of the conclusion is a logical consequence of the premises.
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The presence of a formal fallacy in adeductiveargumentdoes not imply anything about the argument's premises or its conclusion.
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Anotherdeductiveargumentwould be the strength of falsifiability.
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A common convention for adeductiveargumentis the syllogism.
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Such reasoning itself, or the chain of intermediates representing it, has also been called an argument, more fully adeductiveargument.
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As mentioned before, we are assuming that only deductive arguments are considered.
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Deductive arguments correspond to mathematical proofs that the system is correct.
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Usually, but not always expressed as a noun, one of the requirements to informally prove a conclusion with adeductiveargumentis for all its terms to be used unambiguously.
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A chain of deductive arguments gives rise to the theoretical conclusion via the experimental conclusion.
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Averroes distinguishes between inductive and deductive arguments, with conventional arguments from design falling into the former camp.
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Delbruck's paradox does not eliminate the requirement for the construction of well-formed deductive arguments in the construction of causal explanations in the biological and human sciences.
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In deductive arguments, the test of the argument's success are said to be its formal validity and soundness.
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