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Deductive reasoning

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  1. 1
    Inference in which the conclusion cannot be false given that the premises are true.

    "⁴⁴As a hunter traces the location of an animal by the trail of blood, so a king should trace the location of justice by deductive reasoning."

  2. 2
    reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect) wordnet
  3. 3
    Inference in which the conclusion is of no greater generality than the premises.

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