non-deductive
adjective
social sciencespecialized(alsonondeductive)uk/ˌnɒn.dɪˈdʌk.tɪv/us/ˌnɑːn.dɪˈdʌk.tɪv/consideringtheknownfactsand makingjudgmentsaboutprobablecausesandresults:
It is notpossibletodismissthese non-deductivetechniquesassimply"subjective".
Muchevaluativereasoningis nondeductive because there is not enoughinformationtoenableus todrawfirmconclusions.
- He iscriticalof the use of analogicalargument, which byitsnatureis non-deductive, as it relies onethicalintuitions.
- The "mentalmodels"approacharguesthat all theexperimentalresultspointto deduction-likeresultsbeingachievedby non-deductivereasoning.
- In the end, the researchers made thedamagingadmissionthat they had used non-deductivemethodstoresemblededuction.
Concluding and deducing
- analysis
- deduce
- deducible
- deductive
- diagnosis
- draw
- drawn
- imputesomethingtosomeone
- in the last/final analysisidiom
- inconclusively
- inductive
- inductively
- must
- put
- putsomethingdown tosomething
- put two and two together and make fiveidiom
- put two and two togetheridiom
- reason
- syllogism
- syllogistic