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Deductive reasoning
(redirected from Deductive argument)

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Deductive reasoning
Using known facts to draw a conclusion about a specific situation.
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But if, as Isaiah Berlin argued and many non-philosophers believe, these two principles often collide, then, rather than using them as axioms in a deductive argument, we may have to strike a balance between them.
Competing Values by Galston, William A. / Commonweal
Under the cover of a zany, seemingly tangential cacophony lurks a compelling, logical, and surprisingly deductive argument to liberate the public domain from corporate colonization.
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I try not to have a linear, deductive argument but rather these quite short, poemlike concepts--what Walter Benjamin called the Gedankenbild, or the "idea-image.
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